Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
FRANZ KAFKAThe 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Paths are made by walking
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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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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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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The limited circle is pure.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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