Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKAWas he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Books are a narcotic.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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