Franz Kafka quotes

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. (Franz Kafka)
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.
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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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The meaning of life is that it stops. (Franz Kafka)
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Religions get lost as people do.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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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.
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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Now I can look at you in peace I don't eat you anymore. (Franz Kafka)
Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
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Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, she said, but that alone doesn't make it true.
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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