iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

you write that you have no hope, but you do have the hope of being able to leave me completely

franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

only i am at fault, because there was too little truth on my part, still far too little truth, still mostly lies, lies told out of fear of myself and fear of people

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

this afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that i became aware that the strength which i gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength which i certainly have not intended for this purpose

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"one can never know what will happen" is no argument in the face of the intolerability of a present state

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today is my birthday. Franz Kafka, July 3, 1914.

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

of course, today most of us don’t feel any sense of religious community; the sects are countless and limited to individuals, but perhaps it only seems that way from our present perspective

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

as it happens my letters are true or at least approaching truth—what could i possibly do, faced with your replies, if my letters were lies. the answer’s easy: i would go insane

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

on my own,i can’t go the way i want— i can’t even want to do so. i can only be quiet; i can’t want anything else, and i don’t want anything else

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

the hesitation before birth. if there is a transmigration of souls, then i am not yet on the lowest rung. my life is the hesitation before birth

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

i have perhaps caught myself again,have perhaps secretly taken a shortcut again and stop myself, already despairing in loneliness, again. but the headaches, the sleeplessness! well it's worth the struggle or rather,i have no choice

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

out of fear i’d like to read his eyes in order to uncover his every wish, and out of gratitude i’d like to kiss his feet, if he would just leave without asking that i return his visit

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

sometimes i don’t understand how people came across the concept of “fun”; it was probably only abstracted as an opposite to sadness

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

i feel as if i have wronged you and must ask your forgiveness. but i know of no wrong

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

there must be other shared possibilities, the world is full of possibilities, only i still don’t know what they are

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

my experiences in the past have shown me that you are the only one i can travel with; much worse but still bearable is to travel alone

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

but then the metamorphoses resumed and went so far that you were no longer even there; instead i was the one on fire and i was also the one who was beating the fire with the coat.

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

yesterday i dreamt about you. i hardly remember the details, just that we kept on merging into one another, i was you, you were me.

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

you can stand the truth like no one else, and one can tell you the truth both for one’s own sake and for yours; in fact, one can even discover one’s own truth directly through you

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

i look for you everywhere; small gestures made by all kinds of people in the street remind me of you, by their similarity as much as by their differences,but I cannot say what is obsessing me; it obsesses me utterly and leaves no strength to express it

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I think you were unhappy in the past because of bad company,it was completely natural,you can't bask in the shade.

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I'm a little lost,but it doesn't matter because you may have gone along,and now we're both lost

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

That’s the way it is with me too. I often think: I have to write you this or that, but then it turns out I can’t.

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

how about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

there are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

the inner advantages that mediocre literary works derive from the fact that their authors are still alive and present behind them. the real sense of growing old

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

somehow I can’t write about anything but what concerns us and us alone,in the middle of the crowded world.

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Do you know what is special about some people? they are nothing,but they cannot show it,cannot even show it to their own eyes,that is what is special about them

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

It’s fine if we can use words to cover ourselves up from ourselves,but even better if we can adorn and drape ourselves with words until we have become the kind of person that in our hearts we wish to be

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

I need all the time i have and a thousand times more than all the time i have and most of all I’d like to have all the time there is just for you, for thinking about you,for breathing in you

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Earlier, when the door had been barred, they had all wanted to come in to him; now, when he had opened one door and when the others had obviously been opened during the day, no one came any more, and the keys were stuck in the locks on the outside

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

You can choose to be free, but it's the last decision you'll ever make

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

And despite everything, I think that if it is possible to die of happiness then I will certainly do so.and if someone destined to die can be kept alive by happiness,then I will stay alive

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 27/09/2024

Writing letters...means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

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

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Hello Kafka friends from Brazil! I received several nice emails from you in which you expressed a longing for the sunny Kafka. Of course everyone should have access to Kafka's pep talk, so Olá everyone! We are testing this site as well. 🌞

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I 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

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

But what am i supposed to do if this fear,and not my heart,is beating within my body?

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

the worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Is there as much patience as i need,Milena,anywhere in the world? tell me tuesday

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

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

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

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

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

And so gentlemen,i learned. Oh,if you have to learn,you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out,you learn; you learn pitilessly.You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

For me, you were, along with much else,also something like a window through which I could see the streets. I could not do that by myself,for tall though I am I do not yet reach to the windowsill

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

the only thing i do fear—and i fear this with my eyes wide open,i am drowning in this fear,helpless (if I could sleep as deeply as i sink into fear i would no longer be alive)

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

you have once again awakened all the old devils who sleep with one eye closed and one open,waiting for an opportunity. Of course this is frightening and makes me break out in a cold sweat

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

now I’m even losing my name—it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I also hear your laughter but I keep digging into your letters, burrowing between your words and your laughter—until I then hear one single word, one word which is,moreover,my very essence: fear

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franz kafka bot @franzkafkabot.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person

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