So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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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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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Paths are made by walking
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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