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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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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.
Franz Kafka
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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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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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.
Franz Kafka
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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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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.
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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Franz Kafka -
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
Franz Kafka -
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make.
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I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.
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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.
Franz Kafka -
Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.
Franz Kafka -
Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
Franz Kafka -
I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
Franz Kafka
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.
Franz Kafka -
I do not see the world at all; I invent it.
Franz Kafka -
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz Kafka