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.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The limited circle is pure.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Paths are made by walking
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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