Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Books are a narcotic.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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 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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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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