The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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