Franz Kafka Quotes, World Quotes, Here And Now Quotes

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

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The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

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I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

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

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