A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKALove is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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