Franz Kafka Quotes, Food Quotes, Long Quotes

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

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The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. Recognition of this contact is the fact that even the soul does not know of itself. Hence it must remain unknown. That would be sad only if there were anything apart from the soul, but there is nothing else.

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What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

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You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

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The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

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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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A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

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Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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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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