I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKAWriting is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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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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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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