Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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