Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKABetter to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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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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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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