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.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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