Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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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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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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