Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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 First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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