It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAFirst impressions are always unreliable.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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