So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
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Quotes by Franz Kafka
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
Writers speak stench.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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