A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKAI am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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