I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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They’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.
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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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