Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKAIn man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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 need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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