Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Paths are made by walking
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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