Franz Kafka Quotes, Time Quotes, May Quotes

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

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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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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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The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

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

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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

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

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