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.
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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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 dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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 do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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