I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKASlept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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