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 KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Don’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.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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 am free and that is why I am lost.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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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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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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 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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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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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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