Franz Kafka Quotes

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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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.

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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and 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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The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

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I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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First impressions are always unreliable.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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

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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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