Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Books are a narcotic.
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