All Franz Kafka Quotes
A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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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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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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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.
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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