Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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