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Franz Kafka Quotes: A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
         

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.


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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.

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.



Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.



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

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



Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.



I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.



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

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



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.

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.



I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am free and that is why I am lost.



I am a cage, in search of a bird.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.



People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.





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Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.

Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.



I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.



Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it for it is a faculty of the psyche.



Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.

Acting is the only medium were people think they can just stand up and do it because they can say lines, but that is not so much the case. You have to study styles and techniques.



There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.

There’s nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It’s when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew.



No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.

No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.



I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.

I hate crowds of people pretending to be happy on one night of the year, where they get drunk and obnoxious by the end of the night.



Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.

Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.



I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.




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