Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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