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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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fall Quotes , Happy Life Quotes
  • The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Animal Quotes , Order Quotes
  • Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Wall Quotes , Mean Quotes
  • Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Lying Quotes , Needs Quotes