It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKADo 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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