Evil is whatever distracts.
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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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