I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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Books are a narcotic.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Do 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.
FRANZ KAFKA