All Franz Kafka Quotes
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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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.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
Franz Kafka
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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