I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Don’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.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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