You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
FRANZ KAFKAThe right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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