The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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