It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKABelieving in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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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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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Books are a narcotic.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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