It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKAThere is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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