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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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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it? If you were capable of it, you certainly wouldn't be in need of it.

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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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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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

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They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

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Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

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Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

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My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug.

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