Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAForget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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