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First Quotes by Franz Kafka
- Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by…
- 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…
- I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
- Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is…
- Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
- A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
- First impressions are always unreliable.
- Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
- The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with…
- 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.
- The man in ecstasy and the man drowningboth throw up their arms. The first does it to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with…
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