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Franz Kafka  Quotes
Gregor’s serious wound, from which he suffered for over a month – the apple remained imbedded in his flesh as a visible souvenir since no one dared to remove it – seemed to have reminded...

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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

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IsolationLoneliness
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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing...

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CommunicationFear
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It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.

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Ja sam kraj ili početak.

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BookKafkaLetter-To-His-Father
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Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

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There will be no proof that I ever was a writer

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Proof
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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The hardest bones, containing the richest marrow, can be conquered only by a united crushing of all the teeth of all dogs. That of course is only a figure of speech and exaggerated; if all...

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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.

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Isn’t it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?…The heroism involved in staying put in spite of it all is the heroism of a cockroach, which also won’t be driven...

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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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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the...

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within...

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Please — consider me a dream.

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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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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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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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We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.

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Guilt is never to be doubted.

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I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

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DangerFear
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.

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Every-MomentFranz-KafkaHeaven
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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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Cynicism
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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

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Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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Kill me, or you are a murderer.

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Hombro con hombro, una cadena de hermanos, una sangre no ya encerrada en la mezquina circulación del cuerpo, sino circulando con una dulzura y sin embargo regresando sin fin a través de China.

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Beim-Bau-Der-Chinesischen-MauerBrotherhoodEspañol
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Der Sinn für die Darstellung meines traumhaften innern Lebens hat alles andere ins Nebensächliche gerückt, und es ist in einer schrecklichen Weise verkümmert und hört nicht auf, zu verkümmern. Nichts anderes kann mich jemals zufriedenstellen.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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Isn ‘ t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying in such a place is that of a roach which won ‘ t be...

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Heroism
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Religions get lost as people do.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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Writing
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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement...

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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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,...

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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you anymore

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Peace
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One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

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AestheticsArt
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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could...

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EternityExistentialismForever
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when...

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Feminism
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers is contained in the dog

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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved...

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Death
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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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