I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Paths are made by walking
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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 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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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