Franz Kafka quotes - page 2

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. (Franz Kafka)
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. View quote
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. View quote
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. View quote
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. View quote
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. View quote
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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. View quote
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. View quote
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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. View quote
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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found. View quote
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. (Franz Kafka)
The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings. View quote
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Writers speak stench. View quote
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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. View quote
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. View quote
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. View quote
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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. View quote
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. View quote
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man. (Franz Kafka)
In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. View quote
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light. View quote
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He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disappear was, if possible, even firmer than his sister's. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful reflection until the tower clock struck three in the morning. He still saw that outside the window everything was beginning to grow light. Then, without his consent, his head sank down to the floor, and from his nostrils streamed his last weak breath. View quote
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One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. View quote
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