Franz Kafka Quotes, Talking Quotes, Stupidity Quotes

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 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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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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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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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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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 receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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I am free and that is why I am lost.

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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

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

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What is gayer than believing in a household god?

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