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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let go of the earth.
Franz Kafka
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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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Religions get lost as people do.
Franz Kafka
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka
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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 usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka