Franz Kafka Quotes, Mother Quotes, Hands Quotes

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

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

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

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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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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

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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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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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