By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
FRANZ KAFKABy believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
FRANZ KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
FRANZ KAFKAIt’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAI usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
FRANZ KAFKAIt would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKALogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAYou can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
FRANZ KAFKALove is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAEven the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAI never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
FRANZ KAFKAThe meaning of life is that it stops.
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