Franz Kafka Quotes, Fear Quotes, Night Quotes

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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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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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

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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 have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

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But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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What am I doing here in this endless winter?

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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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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The truth is always an abyss.

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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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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

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Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

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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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You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

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