Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Paths are made by walking
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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