Franz Kafka Quotes, Dream Quotes, Lying Quotes

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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

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A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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What am I doing here in this endless winter?

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

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Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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

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