Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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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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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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