Franz Kafka Quotes, What If Quotes, Contentment Quotes

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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

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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

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No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

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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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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

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To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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