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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.- Franz Kafka
Passionately
Create
Sufficiently
Franz Kafka
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.- Franz Kafka
Food
Solved
Being
Franz Kafka
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. -Franz Kafka
Sign
Understanding
Wish
Franz Kafka
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
Need
Table
Simply
Franz Kafka
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. -Franz Kafka
Evaporates
Leaves
Bureaucracy
Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ― Franz Kafka
Quotes About Beauty
Happy
Beauty
Franz Kafka
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Have
Resisting
Life
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Terribly
Dying
Lived
You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Turn
Myself
Love
I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Dream
Face
Clamps
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Sleep
Sleepless
Man
Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Love
Different
Return
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Salvation
Come
Moment
The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Books
Habitation
Suffer
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think of how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Sleep
Unhappy
Dreams
Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Wanting
Random
Radiations
I carry the bars within me.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Carry
Bars
Me
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Realize
Simply
Particularly
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell in a newly found peace after he decided not to eat animals. Kafka recognized that fish as a member of his invisible family- not as his equal, of course, but as another being that was his concern.
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Brings
Aquarium
Concern
But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?
― Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Tranquility
Comfort
Contentment
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