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.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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 are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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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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