We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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