The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
FRANZ KAFKAThe person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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