Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAYou misinterpret everything, even the silence.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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