Franz Kafka Quotes

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

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  Sat, Faded

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

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  Needs, Disaster Preparedness

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

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  Waste, Obstacles

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

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  Ability, Preserves

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• Paths are made by walking

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  Path, Made, Walking

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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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• I am free and that is why I am lost.

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  Lost

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• What am I doing here in this endless winter?

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  Winter, Endless

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• Please — consider me a dream.

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  Dream, Please

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• Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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  Way, Isolation, Knows

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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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• Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

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  Life, Sleep, Novelists

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

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  People, Mind, Wish

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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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  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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