Franz Kafka
"The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer."
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"The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer."
Franz Kafka
"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."
Franz Kafka
"Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment."
Franz Kafka
"It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves."
Franz Kafka
"Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?"
Franz Kafka
"One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so."
Franz Kafka
"Fear of night. Fear of not night."
Franz Kafka
"Evil is the starry sky of the Good."
Franz Kafka
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insa"
Franz Kafka
"I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness."
Franz Kafka
"I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person..."
Franz Kafka
"I am a typical example of Western Jew. This means I don't have a moment of peace, that nothing has come easily to me, not just the present and the future, but even the past, that thing that each man receives as his birth-right: even that I have to conquer, and perhaps that is the hardest task."
Franz Kafka
"The meaning of life is that it ends"
Franz Kafka
"Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it renders everything asunder, the wall, and the bonds and its very self."
Franz Kafka
"[He] used to be soinsignificant that one literally felt alone in his presence."
Franz Kafka
"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
Franz Kafka
"Please β consider me a dream."
Franz Kafka
"βI long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.β"
Franz Kafka
Letters to Milena
"βDon'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.β"
Franz Kafka
"My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked."
Franz Kafka
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