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 KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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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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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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