It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKAForget 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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The limited circle is pure.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Paths are made by walking
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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