Franz Kafka Quotes, Stupidity Quotes

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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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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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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One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.

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If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

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