Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAHold 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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 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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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 only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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