Franz Kafka Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Eight Quotes

If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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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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I never wish to be easily defined.

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I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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

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Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

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

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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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

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