I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
FRANZ KAFKALove is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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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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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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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