Franz Kafka Quotes, People Quotes, Mind Quotes

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess; they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all; come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.

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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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We need the books that affect us like a disaster

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Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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

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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

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One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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