Franz Kafka Quotes, Two Quotes, Perfection Quotes

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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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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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

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All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

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The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

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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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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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

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"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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