Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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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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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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I never wish to be easily defined.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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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.
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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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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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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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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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Religions get lost as people do.
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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.