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Beginning Quotes by Franz Kafka
- Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to…
- A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
- Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
- Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept…
- He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than…
- Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not…
- and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in…
- One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer…
- One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
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- Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. — Marcus Aurelius
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