Franz Kafka Quotes, Soul Quotes, Birth Quotes

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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The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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True undoubting is the teacher's part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil.

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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

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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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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

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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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