I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKAI lack nothing. I only needed myself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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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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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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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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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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.
FRANZ KAFKA