The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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