Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAI cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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 have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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The limited circle is pure.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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