Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKAI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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