There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAI 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Books are a narcotic.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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