A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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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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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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