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Sunday, 6 July 2008
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"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life." (Congreve, William - Joy)

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Browse Quotations by Kafka, Franz

A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
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.
My fear... is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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.
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.


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