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.
FRANZ KAFKAEven the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Paths are made by walking
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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The limited circle is pure.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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