No one can crave what truly harms him.

Franz Kafka

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Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

Franz Kafka

Mots clés writing underworld

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Evil is whatever distracts.

Franz Kafka

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Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

Franz Kafka

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san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

Franz Kafka

Mots clés kafka

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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Franz Kafka

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What am I doing here in this endless winter?

Franz Kafka

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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.

Franz Kafka

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Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

Franz Kafka

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Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason at all and take me out of bed in the night and carry me out onto the pavlatche, and that consequently I meant absolutely nothing as far as he was concerned.

Franz Kafka

Mots clés letter-to-my-father

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