Franz Kafka Quotes, Depression Quotes, Feelings Quotes

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

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There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

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

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Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

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Only the moment counts. It determines life.

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