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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
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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!
Franz Kafka
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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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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
Franz Kafka -
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
Franz Kafka -
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz Kafka -
I carry the bars within me.
Franz Kafka -
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka
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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
Franz Kafka -
I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz Kafka -
One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
Franz Kafka -
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Franz Kafka -
Evil is whatever distracts.
Franz Kafka -
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.
Franz Kafka
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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
Franz Kafka -
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Franz Kafka -
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz Kafka -
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.
Franz Kafka -
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz Kafka -
Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.
Franz Kafka
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The truth is always an abyss.
Franz Kafka -
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.
Franz Kafka -
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka -
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka