We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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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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Paths are made by walking
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You 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.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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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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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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 can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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