I am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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 in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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