Love is a drama of contradictions.
FRANZ KAFKADo you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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