My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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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 have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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