I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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