Find important quotes and citations by the author Franz Kafka.
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Quote 2637
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Quote 2636
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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Quote 2635
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Quote 2634
We are separated from God on two sides; the fall separates us from Him, the tree of ife separates Him from us.
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Quote 2633
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
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Quote 2632
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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Quote 2631
Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
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Quote 2630
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.
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Quote 2629
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation
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Quote 2628
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
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Quote 2627
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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Quote 2626
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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Quote 2625
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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Quote 2624
The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
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Quote 2623
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler
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Quote 2622
One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
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Quote 2621
My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me
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Quote 2620
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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Quote 2619
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
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Quote 2618
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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Quote 2617
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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Quote 2616
I do not read advertisements.
I would spend all of my time wanting things
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Quote 2615
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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Quote 2614
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road.
It must catch fire if you want to go further
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Quote 1248
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being
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