I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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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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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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