Franz Kafka Quotes

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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Love is a drama of contradictions.

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

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Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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All language is but a poor translation.

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

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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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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

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