We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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