Franz Kafka Quotes, Long Quotes, Citizens Quotes

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

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There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

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Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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Paths are made by walking

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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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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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