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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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