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.
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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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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