I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAIt is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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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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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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