Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 4

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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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• Books are a narcotic.

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  Book, Health, Narcotics

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• Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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  Vices, Crowns, Literature

  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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• 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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• The truth is always an abyss.

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  Truth Is, Abyss

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

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  Men, Indestructible

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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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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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  Patience, Art, Spring

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

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  Haunting, Irresistible

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• What is gayer than believing in a household god?

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  God, Believe, Belief

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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

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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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

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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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• First impressions are always unreliable.

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  First Impression, Firsts, Impression

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

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  Writing, Insanity, Monsters

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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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• 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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• 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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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  Book, Reading, Blow

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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  Talking, Stupidity, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, Franz Kafka

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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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