So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAThe 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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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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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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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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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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