There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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