Franz Kafka Quotes

Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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

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This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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First impressions are always unreliable.

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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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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I like to make use of what I know

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All language is but a poor translation.

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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

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What am I doing here in this endless winter?

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