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.
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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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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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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Paths are made by walking
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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