Franz Kafka

(20 votes)   My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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(16 votes)   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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(11 votes)   One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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(11 votes)   Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

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(10 votes)   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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(9 votes)   By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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(9 votes)   It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

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(91 votes)   Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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(80 votes)   God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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(78 votes)   He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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(75 votes)   A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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(75 votes)   Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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(73 votes)   It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

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(71 votes)   Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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(69 votes)   Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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