All Franz Kafka Quotes
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
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Hesitation before birth. 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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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
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