Franz Kafka Quotes, Imagination Quotes

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

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In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

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

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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

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They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.

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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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Please — consider me a dream.

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I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.

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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

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Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

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It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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