Evil is whatever distracts.
FRANZ KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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