You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
FRANZ KAFKADon’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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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