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.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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 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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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