Franz Kafka Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster

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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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One reads in order to ask questions

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Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated

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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 ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

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