Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKAWe photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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