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.
FRANZ KAFKAWe photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Books are a narcotic.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Hold 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.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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