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.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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The limited circle is pure.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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