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 KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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 am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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