We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAI need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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