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.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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The limited circle is pure.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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