A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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