In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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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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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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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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