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.
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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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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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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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