Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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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.
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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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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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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
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Previously I did not understand why I got no answer to my question; today I do not understand how I could believe I was capable of asking. But I didn’t really believe, I only asked.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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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.
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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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.
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Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.