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Franz Kafka Quote: “I’m not in the right place – alas, I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I’m not in the right place.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The moon shone down on everything with that simplicity and serenity which no other light possesses.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “We can’t carry on like this. Maybe you can’t see it, but I can. I don’t want to call this monster my brother, all I can say is: we have to try and get rid of it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In Kafka’s story “Wedding Preparations in the Country,” Edward Raban fantasizes about splitting into two forms: one, to remain in bed all day, dreaming; the other, to go forth and conduct the business of the world.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I mustn’t look at you too much, or I won’t be able to take my eyes off you at all.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “My dear parents,” said the sister banging her hand on the table by way of an introduction, “things cannot go on any longer in this way. Maybe if you don’t understand that, well, I do. I will not utter my brother’s name in front of this monster, and thus I say only that we must try to get rid of it. We have tried what is humanly possible to take care of it and to be patient. I believe that no one can criticize us in the slightest.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Accept your symptoms, don’t complain of them; immerse yourself in your suffering.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Milena, if a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, if no one loved you then know that I am dead.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Lost among these entirely strange people.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In that case, I’ll miss the thing by waiting for it.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “What do I have in common with Jews? I don’t even have anything in common with myself.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Life is as infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s own personal experience. But through it one perceives more than one can see. So above all one must keep the keyhole clean.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown nourishment he had been yearning for.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Everyone has his cross to bear.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn’t make it true.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “Everyone carries a room about inside him.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “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.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The man from the country has not expected such difficulties; the law, he thinks, should be accessible to everyone and at all times; but as he now takes a closer look at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, at his large pointed nose, his long, sparse, black Tartar beard, he decides that it is better, after all, to wait until he receives permission to enter.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “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.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “And where do you see in all this the influence of the Castle?” asked K. “So far it doesn’t seem to have come in. What you’ve told me about is simply the ordinary senseless fear of the people, malicious pleasure in hurting a neighbor, specious friendship, things that can be found anywhere,...”
Franz Kafka Quote: “I am not at peace with myself; I am not always “something,” and if for once I am “something,” I pay for it by “being nothing” for months on end.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “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.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “If you come to me you will be leaping into the abyss.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “What is gayer than believing in a household god?”
Franz Kafka Quote: “The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.”
Franz Kafka Quote: “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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