No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Books are a narcotic.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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