Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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 way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
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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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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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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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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for 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 first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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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.