Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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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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