He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
FRANZ KAFKAEvil is whatever distracts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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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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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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