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Franz Kafka Quotes: One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
         

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.


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



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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.

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.



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