Franz Kafka Quotes, Hands Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

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They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

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

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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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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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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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What am I doing here in this endless winter?

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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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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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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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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

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