Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 14

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• It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of everything in the room at exactly the same place where you had let it go on the previous evening. That is why the moment of waking up was the riskiest moment of the day. Once that was well over without deflecting you from your orbit, you could take heart of grace for the rest of the day.

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  Heart, Eye, Presence Of Mind

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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• The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

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  Seduction, Assuming, Sometimes

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

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• If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Self, Trying

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

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• Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

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  Reality, Names, Speak

  "Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope, and the True Way" (1917 - 1920)

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• I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?

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  Believe, Book, Blow

  "I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings".

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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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  Educational, Tyrants, Two

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.357, Schocken

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• there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak

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  World, Speak, Threshold

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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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  Life, Spiritual, Mind

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• My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

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  Jobs, Mean, Desire

  Franz Kafka (1948). “The diaries of Franz Kafka”, Schocken

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• The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.

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  Travel, Despair, Form

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

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• A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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  Book, Sea, Library

  Letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 Jan. 1904

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• The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

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  Night, Men, Solitude

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• There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

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  Doe, Belief, Diabolical

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

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• What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.

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  People, Spread, Highest

  "Franz Kafka: A Biography". Book by Max Brod, transl. by translated by G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston, p. 74, 1960.

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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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  Wings, Tears, Literature

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

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• If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

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  Trying, Matter, Deeper

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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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  Views, Woods, Boring

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

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• "Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

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  Sad, Midnight, Want

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

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• Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

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  Eye, Discovery, Disappear

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

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  Two, Nonchalance, Paradise

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• If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

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  Climbing, Hiking, Tower Of Babel

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka”, p.354, Archipelago

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• I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

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  Tired, Sleep, Effort

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

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  Home, Doors, Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (1981). “The Metamorphosis”, Bantam Classics

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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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  Hype, Sensual, Elements

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

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• Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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  Hate, Feelings, Literature

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