Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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The limited circle is pure.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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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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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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