I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
FRANZ KAFKALove is a drama of contradictions.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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