Franz Kafka Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Unjust Quotes

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

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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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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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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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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

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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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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

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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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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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In a way, I was safe writing

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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

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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? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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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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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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