Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
FRANZ KAFKAMany a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Books are a narcotic.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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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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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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