“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

― Franz Kafka
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“I am free and that is why I am lost.”

― Franz Kafka
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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.”

― Franz Kafka
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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.”

― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka
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“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”

― franz kafka
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“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

― Franz Kafka
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“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and 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, Franz Kafka's The Castle
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“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
― Franz Kafka
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“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka
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“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka
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“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz
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“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
― Kafka, Franzv
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“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, Letters to Milena
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“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
― Franz Kafka
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“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense"
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis
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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.”
― Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories
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“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski
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“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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