All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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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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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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The limited circle is pure.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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