Franz Kafka Quotes, Way Quotes, Emptiness Quotes

I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

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

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.

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

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Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

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Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

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I am free and that is why I am lost.

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Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

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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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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

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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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April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

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Religions get lost as people do.

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

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