In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
FRANZ KAFKANothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Paths are made by walking
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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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