The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Hold 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.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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