So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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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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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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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 only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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