Franz Kafka Quotes, Hiding Quotes, Possibility Quotes

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

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

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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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I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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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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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

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it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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

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You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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