The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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 have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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No, 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.
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