Franz Kafka Quotes, Two Quotes, Perfection Quotes

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 say, action.

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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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 to observe myself all the closer.

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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

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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 night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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

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I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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