I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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