I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKAWhat am I doing here in this endless winter?
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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 right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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