The limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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