Franz Kafka Quotes

Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

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Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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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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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

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Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

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