A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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 tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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