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“Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“All language is but a poor translation.”

Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: A cage went in search of a bird.

“Evil is whatever distracts.”

Franz Kafka

Source: book The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

Franz Kafka

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“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.”

Franz Kafka

Variant: 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.

“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

Franz Kafka

“Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”

Franz Kafka book The Castle

Source: The Castle (1926)

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”

Franz Kafka

Source: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

Source: The Trial

“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“And don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena