I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKAWriting is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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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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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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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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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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