You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKAA book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Paths are made by walking
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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