Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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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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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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