It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKANo, 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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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.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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