Franz Kafka Quotes, Night Quotes, Fire Quotes

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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When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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

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Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

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

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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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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

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Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

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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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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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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

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there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

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Evil is whatever distracts.

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

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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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