Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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 choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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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.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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