It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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