You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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