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Franz Kafka
Of course I'm ignorant, that remains true at all events and is extremely distressing for me, but it does have the advantage that the ignorant man dares more, so I shall gladly put up with ignorance and its undoubtedly dire consequences for a while, as long as my strength lasts.
Franz Kafka
Then birds flew up like a shower of sparks, I followed them with my eyes and saw how they rose in a single breath, until they seemed no longer to be rising but I to be falling...
Franz Kafka
People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railin
William S. Wilson
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... {"Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read"}
Franz Kafka
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? {...} We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Franz Kafka
You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.
Franz Kafka
Many questions were troubling the explorer, but at the sight of the prisoner he asked only: Does he know his sentence? No, said the officer, eager to go on with his exposition, but the explorer interrupted him: He doesn't know the sentence that has been passed on him? No, said the officer again, pausing a moment as if to let the explorer elaborate his question, and then said: There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body.
Franz Kafka
Gregor's serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month - the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it - seemed to have reminded even his father that Gregor was a member of the family, in spite of his present pathetic and repulsive shape, who could not be treated as an enemy; that, on the contrary, it was the commandment of the family duty to swallow their disgust and endure him, endure him and nothing more.
Franz Kafka
I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them.
Franz Kafka
During last night's insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life…
Franz Kafka
and i would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
Franz Kafka
I'm not in the right place - alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I'm not in the right place.
Franz Kafka
The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.
Franz Kafka
He is afraid the shame will outlive him.
Franz Kafka
Next time I come here," he said to himself, "I must either bring sweets with me to make them like me or a stick to hit them with.
Franz Kafka
all {the authorities} did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters
Franz Kafka
Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me - in sober truth a disinherited son - naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body.
Franz Kafka
If his idea of ideas cannot be extinct, no matter how intruder, as long as it is found once, or it can at least be extinct without a terrible conflict, and without being able to achieve itself in defense, he actually succeeds in establishing a long time
Franz Kafka
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Franz Kafka
You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.
Franz Kafka
One is very selfish when he is tired
Franz Kafka
I didn't want any new clothes at all; because if I had to look ugly anyway, I wanted to at least be comfortable. I let the awful clothes affect even my posture, walked around with my back bowed, my shoulders drooping, my hands and arms all over the place. I was afraid of mirrors, because they showed an inescapable ugliness.
Franz Kafka
The longer one hesitates before the door, the more estranged one becomes.
Franz Kafka
You've seen yourself how difficult the writing is to decipher with your eyes, but our man deciphers it with his wounds.
Franz Kafka
What do I have in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself, and really ought to go stand myself perfectly still in a corner, grateful to be able to breathe.
Franz Kafka
This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength which I certainly have not intended for this purpose.
Franz Kafka
I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.
Franz Kafka
My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
Franz Kafka
Down Here and up there are all the same to me. Whether I lie here in the gutter and stow away the rain water or drink champagne up there with the same lips makes no difference to me, not even in the taste.
Franz Kafka
It is a thousand forgetfulness of the dream that you see a thousand times, and it has been forgotten a thousand times
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