You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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