Franz Kafka Quotes
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Plenty of hope - for God - no end of hope - only not for us.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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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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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.