What am I doing here in this endless winter?
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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