By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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