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.
FRANZ KAFKAThey’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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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