A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Paths are made by walking
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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