It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
FRANZ KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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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.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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The limited circle is pure.
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