Franz Kafka Quotes

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth

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Religions get lost as people do

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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings

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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us

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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing

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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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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself

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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless

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

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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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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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