You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Paths are made by walking
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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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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