It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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