You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKAI am a cage, in search of a bird.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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The limited circle is pure.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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 have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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