Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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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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