I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Paths are made by walking
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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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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