All Franz Kafka Quotes
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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My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.
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