Franz Kafka Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Self Quotes

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

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A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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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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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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