We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
FRANZ KAFKAWhat am I doing here in this endless winter?
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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