Franz Kafka Quotes, Courage Quotes

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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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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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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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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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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