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Oneself 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…
- Writing means revealing oneself to excess.
- 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…
- 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…
- This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have…
- 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…
- Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
- It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill
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