I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on 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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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