Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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.
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.
One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?
Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.
When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
What is written is merely the dregs of experience.
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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