Franz Kafka Quotes, Self Quotes, Doubt Quotes

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

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Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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

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I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

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

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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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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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

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They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

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

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If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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