So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKALove is a drama of contradictions.
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 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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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