Franz Kafka Quotes - Page 7

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• Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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  Literature

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

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• Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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  Sleep, Trying, Going To Sleep

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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  Home, Waiting, World

  Franz Kafka (2011). “The Zurau Aphorisms”, p.108, Random House

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• What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

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  Common, Jew

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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  Men, Arms, Firsts

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

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• The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

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  Understanding, Matter, Misunderstanding

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 7, 1920.

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• Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

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  Suicide, Mean, Understanding

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

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• The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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  Support, Literature, Spirit

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

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• Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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  Art, Suffering, Release

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

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  Art, Mirrors, Watches

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• He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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  Boss, Brain, Tools

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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  One Day, Roaring, Three

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• For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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  Eye, Brain, Watches

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• Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

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  Doe, Needs, Earth

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.428, Schocken

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• One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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  Women, Struggle, Mean

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

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• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

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  Past, Thinking, Chaos

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

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• Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

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  Heaven, Dumb

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

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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  Way, Lost, Knows

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Writing, Form

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• From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

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  Courage, Antagonist

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

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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Illness

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• Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

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  Kissing, Way, Ghost

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.222, Schocken

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• Religions get lost as people do.

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  People, Literature, Lost

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

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