We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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