What am I doing here in this endless winter?
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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