Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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 am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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