Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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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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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 can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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