A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAThe meaning of life is that it stops.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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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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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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