Franz Kafka Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Self Quotes

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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One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

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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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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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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 right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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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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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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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

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You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

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Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.

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