You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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