Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
FRANZ KAFKAHold 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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