I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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