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.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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