QUOTES by Franz Kafka
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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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"Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts."
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"Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm."
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
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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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"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
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"This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me."
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"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."
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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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"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves."
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"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."
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"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
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"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
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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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"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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"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Quote by -Franz Kafka