Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
FRANZ KAFKAI never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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In 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.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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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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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Paths are made by walking
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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