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  • There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Two Quotes , Paradise Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fall Quotes , Happy Life Quotes
  • I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Hate Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Eye Quotes , Discovery Quotes