The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKADon’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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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 usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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