A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Books are a narcotic.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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