All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAWriting is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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The limited circle is pure.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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