It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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It 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.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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