Franz Kafka Quotes

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

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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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Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

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But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary, he will come only one day after his arrival, he will not come on the last day, but on the last day of all.

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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.

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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

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Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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I am a cage, in search of a bird.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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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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