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From Quotes by Franz Kafka
- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
- 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…
- The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the…
- There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
- From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside…
- Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree…
- It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for…
- There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.
- There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from…
- From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
- From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
- 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,…
- A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
- We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
- The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that…
- Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it…
- As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
- 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…
- 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.…
- The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday…
- Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It…
- His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least…
- But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a…
- 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…
- What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what…
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