You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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All language is but a poor translation.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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