Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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Writers speak stench.
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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
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Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make.
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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash.
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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
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Der Mensch kann nicht leben ohne ein dauerndes Vertrauen zu etwas Unzerstörbarem in sich, wobei sowohl das Unzerstörbare als auch das Vertrauen ihm dauernd verborgen bleiben können. Eine der Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten dieses Verborgen-Bleibens ist der Glaube an einen persönlichen Gott.
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Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.