I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKALogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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 are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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 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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