Franz Kafka Quotes, Lying Quotes, Needs Quotes

Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

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Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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I never wish to be easily defined.

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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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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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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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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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One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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