Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Books are a narcotic.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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