You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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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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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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The limited circle is pure.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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