Franz Kafka Quotes
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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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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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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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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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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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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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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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 spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.
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What is gayer than believing in a household god?
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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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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Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.
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Religions get lost as people do.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.
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I never wish to be easily defined.
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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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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.