I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKAKill me, or you are a murderer.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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