Franz Kafka Quotes, Photography Quotes, Eye Quotes

Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

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In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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One reads in order to ask questions

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If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping one another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes around an individual loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty space; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That's why we should cling to the others.

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I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for 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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The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

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The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

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

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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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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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