Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 12

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• No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Men, Done

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• It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

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  Made, Wanted, Has Beens

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.107, Franz Kafka

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• He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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  Long, Citizens, World

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.66, Schocken

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• And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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  Goodbye, Long, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

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  Winter, Dark, Night

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• Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

  Franz Kafka

  Imagination, Misfortunes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us.
  What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said
  that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

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  Fate, Order, Religion

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Light, Belief

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

  Franz Kafka

  Eye, Order, Mind

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• I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

  Franz Kafka

  Spring, Dancing, Storm

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• They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

  Franz Kafka

  Soul, Shows, Contemplating

  "The Penguin complete short stories of Franz Kafka".

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• The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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  Worry, Facts, Privilege

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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  Health, Duty, Ifs

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

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  Party, Judging, World

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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  Time, Eternity, Logical

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.

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  Writing, Mean, Insanity

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• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

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  Animal, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

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  Love, Men, Doe

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

  Franz Kafka

  Giving Up, Pain, Worry

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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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  Comforting, World, Seems

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

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  Travel, Waiting, Unmasking

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• German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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  Mother, Hands, Movement

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.26, Schocken

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• Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

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  Love, World, Limits

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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