Franz Kafka Quotes, Tree Quotes, Guilt Quotes

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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You too have weapons.

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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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Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

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

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

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

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The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

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There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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

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I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

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