I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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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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The limited circle is pure.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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