Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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