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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