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.
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The limited circle is pure.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Paths are made by walking
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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