Franz Kafka Quotes
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Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
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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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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question; today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking. But I didn’t really believe, I only asked.
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I never wish to be easily defined.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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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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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.