From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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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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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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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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