Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
FRANZ KAFKAIt’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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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 usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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