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 KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. 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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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