Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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