A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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 am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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