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.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Books are a narcotic.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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