So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAIt 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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