There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
FRANZ KAFKAEvery revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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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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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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.
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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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