Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
FRANZ KAFKAYou only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Books are a narcotic.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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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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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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 dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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