Franz Kafka Quotes, Soul Quotes, Doe Quotes

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

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

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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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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We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

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there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

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So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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One reads in order to ask questions

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Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

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You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

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You too have weapons.

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You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

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

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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No one can crave what truly harms him.

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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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