I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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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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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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