You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKASlept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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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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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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