Franz Kafka Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Self Quotes

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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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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It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

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In a way, I was safe writing

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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is hard of hearing.

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The limited circle is pure.

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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

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

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it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

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

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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