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  • Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Hate Quotes , Feelings Quotes
  • Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Lying Quotes , Needs Quotes
  • Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Reflection Quotes , Psychology Quotes
  • For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Lying Quotes , Snow Quotes
  • For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Perception Quotes , Way Quotes
  • Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Art Quotes , Lying Quotes