There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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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 am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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 am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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