Franz Kafka Quotes, Perception Quotes, Way Quotes

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath.

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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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Books are a narcotic.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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Religions get lost as people do.

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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

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