The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Franz Kafka

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

Franz Kafka

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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Franz Kafka


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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Franz Kafka


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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.

Franz Kafka

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Franz Kafka


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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Franz Kafka


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The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Franz Kafka

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I am free and that is why I am lost.

Franz Kafka


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