You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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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 usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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