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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Written by Franz Kafka
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.
Written by Franz Kafka
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Written by Franz Kafka
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
Written by Franz Kafka
No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
Written by Franz Kafka
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Written by Franz Kafka
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Written by Franz Kafka
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Written by Franz Kafka
Evil is whatever distracts.
Written by Franz Kafka
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Written by Franz Kafka
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Written by Franz Kafka
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.
Written by Franz Kafka
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Written by Franz Kafka
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
Written by Franz Kafka
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Written by Franz Kafka
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Written by Franz Kafka
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Written by Franz Kafka
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
Written by Franz Kafka
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.
Written by Franz Kafka
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Written by Franz Kafka
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
Written by Franz Kafka
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Written by Franz Kafka
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.
Written by Franz Kafka
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
Written by Franz Kafka
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
Written by Franz Kafka
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Written by Franz Kafka
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
Written by Franz Kafka
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
Written by Franz Kafka
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Written by Franz Kafka
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
Written by Franz Kafka

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