No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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