Franz Kafka Quotes, Soul Quotes, Birth Quotes

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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

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Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

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One reads in order to ask questions

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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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Only the moment counts. It determines life.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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In a way, I was safe writing

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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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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

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