Franz Kafka Quotes

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

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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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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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

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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

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I passed by the brothel as though past the house of a beloved.

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Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

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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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The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

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