You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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 can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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The limited circle is pure.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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