I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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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.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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