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.
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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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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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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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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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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.
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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
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