Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKAAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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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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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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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