Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKAMany a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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