Franz Kafka Quotes, Matter Quotes, Staring Quotes

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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Writers speak stench.

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

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Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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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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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find.

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