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Say Quotes by Franz Kafka
- Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to…
- Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I…
- Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is…
- There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
- How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world,…
- And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that…
- My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,…
- What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what…
- They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong
- It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.
- Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and…
- Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.
- One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer…
- April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to…
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