So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAKill me, or you are a murderer.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Paths are made by walking
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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 if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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