Franz Kafka Quotes, Strong Quotes, Lying Quotes

I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

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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.

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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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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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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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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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If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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The truth is always an abyss.

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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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I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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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.

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