Franz Kafka Quotes

You too have weapons.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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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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Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

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The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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

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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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Only the moment counts. It determines life.

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The truth is always an abyss.

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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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