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Famous Franz Kafka Quotes
“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
“The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.”
“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
“If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)”
“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.”
“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”
“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
“Kill me, or you are a murderer.”
“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
“What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.”
“There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.”