Franz Kafka Quotes, Kings Quotes, Children Quotes

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

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

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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.

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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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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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The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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