Franz Kafka Quotes, Fear Quotes

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

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I don't know who the great lawyers are, and I presume you can't get to them. I know of no case where it can be said for certain that they took part. They defend some people, but you can't get them to do that through your own efforts, they only defend the ones they want to defend. But I assume a case they take on must have progressed beyond the lower court. It's better not to think of them at all, otherwise you'll find the consultations with the other lawyers, their advice and their assistance, extremely disgusting and useless.

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Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

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The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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I carry the bars within me.

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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

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It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

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