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.
FRANZ KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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The limited circle is pure.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I 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.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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