Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAYou only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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