Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 4

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Arms, He Man

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• Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Solitary Life

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• Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.

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  Lying, Needs, Failing

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• Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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  Philosophical, Sleep, Men

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• If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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  Tomorrow, Immortality, Ifs

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Evil is whatever distracts.

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  Evil, Literature, Madness

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• 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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  Night, Fire, Details

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Letters to Milena”

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• The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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  Motivation, Men, Goal

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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  Writing, Lawyer, Persons

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• The truth is always an abyss.

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  Truth Is, Abyss

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• Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

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  Love, Problem, Passengers

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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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.

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  Depression, Health, World Suffering

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

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  Haunting, Irresistible

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• Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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  Fear, Night, Dread

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Readers recommend: songs about books" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

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• sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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  Sleep, Men, Guilty

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.22, Schocken

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• I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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  Thinking, Darkness, Goes On

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• A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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  Writing, Insanity, Monsters

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• Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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  Men, Indestructible

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• First impressions are always unreliable.

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  First Impression, Firsts, Impression

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• As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

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  Learning, School, Individuality

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• One reads in order to ask questions

  Franz Kafka

  Order, Asks

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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  Doe, Answers, Tests

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.401, Everyman's Library

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• From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

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  Courage, Real, Gains

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

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  Way, Destination, Hesitation

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.26, Schocken

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