Franz Kafka Quotes, Eye Quotes, Brain Quotes

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

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

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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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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

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The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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

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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

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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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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

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

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The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

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