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.
FRANZ KAFKAHe was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Paths are made by walking
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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 am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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