Franz Kafka Quotes, Fall Quotes, Space Quotes

People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

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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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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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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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Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

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True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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Kill me, or you are a murderer.

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Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

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

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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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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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In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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