Franz Kafka Quotes, Castles Quotes, Gazing Quotes

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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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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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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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

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

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There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

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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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I do not see the world at all; I invent it.

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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

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In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

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Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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