You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Books are a narcotic.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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The limited circle is pure.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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