There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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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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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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