Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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All language is but a poor translation.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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