Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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