Franz Kafka Quotes, Evil Quotes, Deception Quotes

Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

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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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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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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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Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

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The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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