Best Kafka Quotes

This would require a night darker than any night has ever been...

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21 November. Had supper. Now at home. Who on high could behold all this with open eyes from beginning to end?

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"There would be no point in telling him. He'll learn it on his body."

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13 December. Due to fatigue did not write. lay on the sofa in the warm room and now in the cold room, with sick legs and disgusting dreams.

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Today, for instance, I was rude three times, once to a conductor, once to someone introduced to me—so there were only 2, but they pain me

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Today, reality is a flesh-eating demon. Note to self: fire the scullery maid. Note to self: the bouganvile is lovely this time of year.

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as if by a soldier who covers the retreat and lets himself be blown up for it, then it is not true despair.

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I need solitude

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"Everyone strives to attain the Law; how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?"

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28 May. Day after tomorrow I leave for Berlin. In spite of insomnia, headaches and worries, perhaps in a better state than ever before.

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He tapped the area around my heart for an especially long time; it lasted so long he seemed almost absent-minded.

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7 July. If I were a child, I should have to be carried, my legs ache so.

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The dancer Eduardova is not so pretty outdoors as on the stage.

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there is a destination but no way there

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This could perhaps be done by certain Japanese acrobats, for instance, climbing on a ladder that lies not on the ground,

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There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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16 December. The warm shadow in the soft red of Mrs Klug's mouth when she sings.

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But how can a wall protect if it is not a continuous structure? Not only can it not protect, but what there is of it is in perpetual danger.

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..finally masters himself enough to crack the whip loudly; runs alongside the horse, finds her artistic skills almost beyond belief ..

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I don't strive for self-mastery, which is a desire, within endless emanations of my intellectual life, to be effective at some random point

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He recalled this long-forgotten resolve and forgot it again, like a man drawing a short thread through the eye of a needle