I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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