Franz Kafka Quotes, Truth Is Quotes

The truth is always an abyss.

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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.

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One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

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No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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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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Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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Writer speaks a stench.

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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

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At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

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