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Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.
Franz Kafka -
Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
Franz Kafka
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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
Franz Kafka -
All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.
Franz Kafka -
Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
Franz Kafka -
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
Franz Kafka -
Please — consider me a dream.
Franz Kafka -
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
Franz Kafka
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
Franz Kafka -
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.
Franz Kafka -
I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.
Franz Kafka -
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Franz Kafka -
I am free and that is why I am lost.
Franz Kafka -
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
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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.
Franz Kafka -
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka