Franz Kafka Quotes

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

  Franz Kafka

  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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  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.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Fashion, Truth

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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Sea, Wish, Vodka

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  Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspiring, Freedom, Autism

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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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  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.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Waste, Obstacles

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

  Franz Kafka

  What If, Littles, Nonsense

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

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• Please — consider me a dream.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Please

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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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• 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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• Paths are made by walking

  Franz Kafka

  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 a cage, in search of a bird.

  Franz Kafka

  Bird, Novelists, Cages

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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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• I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Metamorphosis, Happenings

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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Lost

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

  Franz Kafka

  Humans, Human Relations, Convinced

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• Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Doctors, Names

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  I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

  Franz Kafka

  Tired, Thinking, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Letters to Milena”

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• The meaning of life is that it stops.

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  Life, Death, Life And Death

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

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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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• All language is but a poor translation.

  Franz Kafka

  Ironic, Novelists, Language

  "Franz Kafka And James Baldwin: Blackstar 10/1/16" by Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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