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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write (Franz Kafka Quotes)
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can’t be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness (Franz Kafka Quotes)
We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm (Franz Kafka Quotes)
His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light (Franz Kafka Quotes)
What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness (Franz Kafka Quotes)
All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength (Franz Kafka Quotes)
The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us (Franz Kafka Quotes)
There is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self (Franz Kafka Quotes)
He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it (Franz Kafka Quotes)
That’s how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one’s hand (Franz Kafka Quotes)
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? (Franz Kafka Quotes)
It’s sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it’s at all possible ever to have any success in one’s work here (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all (Franz Kafka Quotes)
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance (Franz Kafka Quotes)
It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true (Franz Kafka Quotes)
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn’t make it true (Franz Kafka Quotes)
Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery (Franz Kafka Quotes)
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? (Franz Kafka Quotes)