Franz Kafka Quotes

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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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Love You, Different, Return

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

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Sea, Wish, Vodka

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

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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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People, Make You Smile, Watches

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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What If, Littles, Nonsense

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

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Wish To Die, Understanding, Literature

Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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Justice, Age, Able

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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Bird, Novelists, Cages

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

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Stupidity, Able

Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, Franz Kafka

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

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Waste, Obstacles

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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

"The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

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People, Adjectives, Labels

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Paths are made by walking

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Path, Made, Walking

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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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Life, Metamorphosis, Happenings

"The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

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I am free and that is why I am lost.

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Lost

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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

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Ability, Preserves

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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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Freedom, Literature, Chains

Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

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Problem, Solve

Franz Kafka (1977). “Letters to friends, family, and editors”, Schocken

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

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Needs, Disaster Preparedness

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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Sat, Faded

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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Wish, Defined

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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Fear, Dying

Franz Kafka (2013). “The Metamorphosis”, p.135, Modern Library

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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

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Humans, Human Relations, Convinced

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I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

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Running, Memories, Wall

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Born: July 3, 1883
Died: June 3, 1924
Occupation: Writer
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