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Franz KafkaLogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
Franz KafkaThe nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.
Franz KafkaTheoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.
Franz KafkaBut questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.
Franz KafkaThe tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times [I'd] rather be torn to pieces than rather it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.
Franz KafkaAnything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Franz KafkaI waver, continually fly to the summit of the mountain, but cannot stay up there for more than a moment. Others waver too, but in lower regions, with greater strength; if they are in danger of falling, they are caught up by the kinsman who walks beside them for that purpose. But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of dying.
Franz KafkaMan cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, and at the same time that indestructible something as well as his trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.
Franz KafkaA belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
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