The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKANo, 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.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAI write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
FRANZ KAFKAI am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKAMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAIt 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.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAThey’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.
FRANZ KAFKAI am free and that is why I am lost.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAThere is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
FRANZ KAFKA