I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
FRANZ KAFKAIt’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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