They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
FRANZ KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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 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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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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