You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKABetter to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKA