A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKAYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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