Franz Kafka Quotes

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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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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You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

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But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.

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I am free and that is why I am lost.

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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

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They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

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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 it?

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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

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Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

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I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and 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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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

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

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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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