My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKAI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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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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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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