Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAThey say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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 am free and that is why I am lost.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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