Franz Kafka Quotes, Men Quotes

Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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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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and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

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

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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

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The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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