I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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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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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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