You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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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.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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