I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKAI am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Books are a narcotic.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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