I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
FRANZ KAFKAPeople label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Books are a narcotic.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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