Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 6

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• The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

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  Father, Heart, Church

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• I like to make use of what I know

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  Use, Knows

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.118, Franz Kafka

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• I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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  Want, Advertising, Advertisements

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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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  Food, Long, Cooking

  "Investigations of a Dog". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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  True Words, Untrue, Mislead

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• Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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  Dream, Lying, Thinking

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.255, Everyman's Library

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• But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

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  Asking, Answers, Moments

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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  Literature, Able, Willing

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• Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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  Dog, Answers, Impulse

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• The limited circle is pure.

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  Hilarious, Circles, Pure

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

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  Wall, Self, Dust

  Franz Kafka (2002). “Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Other Writings: Franz Kafka”, p.167, A&C Black

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• He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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  Doe, Found

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

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• A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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  Book, Ice, Should

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• The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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  Understanding, Matter, Misunderstanding

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 7, 1920.

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• In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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  Lying, Circles, Humans

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• I carry the bars within me.

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  Bars

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• Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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  Book, Keys, Castles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.23, Schocken

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• Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

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  Running, Wall, Cat

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• This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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  Morning, Heart, Knives

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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  Men, May, Determined

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 10, 1920.

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• Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Writing

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• Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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  Photography, Eye, Light

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• In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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  Struggle, Men, World

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• My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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  Fear, Fearless, Substance

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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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