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Franz Kafka Quotes

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard Picture Quote #1

Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion Picture Quote #1

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it Picture Quote #1

True undoubting is the teacher’s part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil Picture Quote #1

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Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being Picture Quote #1

Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way Picture Quote #1

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer Picture Quote #1

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency Picture Quote #1

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made Picture Quote #1

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy Picture Quote #1

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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? Picture Quote #1

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing Picture Quote #1

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before Picture Quote #1

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe Picture Quote #1

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man Picture Quote #1

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie Picture Quote #1

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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached Picture Quote #1

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us Picture Quote #1

Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more Picture Quote #1

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness Picture Quote #1

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog Picture Quote #1

There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation Picture Quote #1

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I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner Picture Quote #1

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us Picture Quote #1

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me Picture Quote #1

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit Picture Quote #1

Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts Picture Quote #1

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity Picture Quote #1

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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard (Franz Kafka Quotes) Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else (Franz Kafka Quotes) 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 (Franz Kafka Quotes) In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion (Franz Kafka Quotes) Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it (Franz Kafka Quotes) True undoubting is the teacher’s part, continual undoubting the part of the pupil (Franz Kafka Quotes) Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being (Franz Kafka Quotes) Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way (Franz Kafka Quotes) The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer (Franz Kafka Quotes) Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency (Franz Kafka Quotes) Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made (Franz Kafka Quotes) Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy (Franz Kafka Quotes) How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? (Franz Kafka Quotes) In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing (Franz Kafka Quotes) Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before (Franz Kafka Quotes) Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe (Franz Kafka Quotes) The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man (Franz Kafka Quotes) There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie (Franz Kafka Quotes) Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached (Franz Kafka Quotes) I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us (Franz Kafka Quotes) Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more (Franz Kafka Quotes) I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness (Franz Kafka Quotes) All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog (Franz Kafka Quotes) There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation (Franz Kafka Quotes) I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner (Franz Kafka Quotes) We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us (Franz Kafka Quotes) Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me (Franz Kafka Quotes) Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit (Franz Kafka Quotes) Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts (Franz Kafka Quotes) I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity (Franz Kafka Quotes)

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