Franz Kafka Quotes, Writing Quotes, Effort Quotes

The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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Religions get lost as people do.

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

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

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Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

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