Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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The limited circle is pure.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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