Books are a narcotic.
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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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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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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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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