A THREAD on timeless quotes by Franz Kafka:
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They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong.
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It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow man.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
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Many a books are like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair.
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No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.
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