Franz Kafka quotes - page 13

Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words. (Franz Kafka)
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment. View quote
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My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then? View quote
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Go on caring for me. View quote
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...it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary. View quote
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... it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little. View quote
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It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man. View quote
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Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself. View quote
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Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul. View quote
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August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon. View quote
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I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity. (Franz Kafka)
the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man. View quote
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Like a dog! View quote
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I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world. View quote
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You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don't know. View quote
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There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's own novel. View quote
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Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present. View quote
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By your side I'm most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free. View quote
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Illusions are more common than changes in fortune. View quote
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The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness. View quote
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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. (Franz Kafka)
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities for escape, again, are as many as hiding places. There is a goal, but no way; what we call a way is hesitation. View quote
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Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony. View quote
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"It cannot be said that we are lacking in faith. Even the simple fact of our life is of a faith-value that can never be exhausted.” "You suggest there is some faith-value in this? One cannot not-live, after all.” "It is precisely in this ‘Cannot, after all' that the mad strength of faith lies; it is in this negation that it takes on form.” There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you. View quote
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His weariness is that of the gladiator after the combat; his work was the whitewashing of a corner in a state official's office. View quote
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