All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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