All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAIn a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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