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.
FRANZ KAFKAThis 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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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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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Paths are made by walking
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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