I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Paths are made by walking
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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