Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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’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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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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