Franz Kafka Quotes

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Walk of life:Novelist

Born:July 3, 1883, Czechia

Died:Died: June 3, 1924, Austria

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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKA

Beyond Inspirational Return
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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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Love Yourself
Paths are made by walking
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Inspirational Path Walk
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
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Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKA

Dream Myself
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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Eyes Mindset Myself Ourselves Photograph Story
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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Possible Quite Yourself
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Life Wake Up
Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Love One Liner
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Death Himself Kill Philosophy
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Misery People
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Sanity Writing
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Cold Deep Oneself Philosophy Solitude Writing
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Deep Material Need Philosophy
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Deep Kill Myself One Liner
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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Animal Himself Light Music
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Feeling Fortune Grateful Love Myself
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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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself

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