Franz Kafka quotes - page 9

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms. (Franz Kafka)
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist. View quote
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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. View quote
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You too have weapons. View quote
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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us. View quote
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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb. View quote
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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before. View quote
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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? View quote
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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it. View quote
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But questions that don't answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered. View quote
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It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true. (Franz Kafka)
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. View quote
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write. View quote
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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief. View quote
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. View quote
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I'm doing badly, I'm doing well, whichever you prefer. View quote
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Paths are made by walking. View quote
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So then you're free?' ‘Yes, I'm free,' said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom. View quote
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Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. View quote
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe... but not for us. View quote
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We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. (Franz Kafka)
They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong. View quote
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Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers. View quote
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You are free and that is why you are lost. View quote
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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 speaks he lies. View quote
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