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.
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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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