Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAIt 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Books are a narcotic.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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