The limited circle is pure.
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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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