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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

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

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Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

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Please — consider me a dream.

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The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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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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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

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We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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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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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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What is gayer than believing in a household god?

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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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