Franz Kafka Quotes, God Quotes, Law Quotes

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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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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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

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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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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.

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But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

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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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Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

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You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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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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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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In a way, I was safe writing

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