Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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Please — consider me a dream.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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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 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’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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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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