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.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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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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