I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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