Franz Kafka Quotes, Guiding Principles Quotes, Guilt Quotes

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

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A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

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Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.

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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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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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Paths are made by walking

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The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

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Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

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Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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