Franz Kafka Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Dream Quotes

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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Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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I carry the bars within me.

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

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In a way, I was safe writing

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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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The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

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

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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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There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

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I like to make use of what I know

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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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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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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

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All language is but a poor translation.

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