Franz Kafka Quotes, Mother Quotes, Hands Quotes

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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

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They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

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I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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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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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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