You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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