Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAJust think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Books are a narcotic.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Please — consider me a dream.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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