I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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