Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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 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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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