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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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