Franz Kafka Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Lying Quotes

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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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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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

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Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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