Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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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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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Paths are made by walking
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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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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