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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.


Franz Kafka

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SARA SHEPARD Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
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DONALD RAY POLLOCK Fortunately, my care factor was now dangerously close to fuck-it levels.
KYLIE SCOTT If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.
BARRY DAVIES It would have been a bit more lively if it had been in people's native tongue.
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DEYTH BANGER If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
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PROVERB The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
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FRANZ KAFKA May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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FRANZ KAFKA God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
FRANZ KAFKA So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
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FRANZ KAFKA It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmeti...
FRANZ KAFKA It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...
FRANZ KAFKA In a way, I was safe writing
FRANZ KAFKA I am a cage, in search of a bird.
FRANZ KAFKA Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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FRANZ KAFKA The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life -- the terr...
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FRANZ KAFKA For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling...
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FRANZ KAFKA Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
FRANZ KAFKA A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
FRANZ KAFKA In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element with...
FRANZ KAFKA Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at on...
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FRANZ KAFKA Persons who write a 10,000 word document and call it a brief
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FRANZ KAFKA I do not hope for victory
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FRANZ KAFKA Evil is whatever distracts.
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FRANZ KAFKA The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
FRANZ KAFKA A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
FRANZ KAFKA The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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FRANZ KAFKA He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
FRANZ KAFKA Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKA Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
FRANZ KAFKA I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that...
FRANZ KAFKA Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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FRANZ KAFKA Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
FRANZ KAFKA Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agr...
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FRANZ KAFKA What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
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FRANZ KAFKA A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

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FRANZ KAFKA You spend too much time on ephemeras. The majority of modern books are merely wavering reflections o...
FRANZ KAFKA Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he ...
FRANZ KAFKA Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul acco...
FRANZ KAFKA If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gon...
FRANZ KAFKA The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble t...
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FRANZ KAFKA The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our l...
FRANZ KAFKA The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infini...
FRANZ KAFKA People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,
with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
FRANZ KAFKA ...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the d...
FRANZ KAFKA I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things
FRANZ KAFKA Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
FRANZ KAFKA You are free and that is why you are lost
FRANZ KAFKA Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in sta...
FRANZ KAFKA There will be no proof that I ever was a writer
FRANZ KAFKA Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?
FRANZ KAFKA Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
FRANZ KAFKA Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...
FRANZ KAFKA It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
FRANZ KAFKA sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKA Ali svi se slažu u tome da se ne podižu lakomislene optužbe i da se sud, kad jedanput nekog optu�...
FRANZ KAFKA I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKA So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to sta...
FRANZ KAFKA 4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that woul...
FRANZ KAFKA I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...
FRANZ KAFKA One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes whi...
FRANZ KAFKA In our folk nobody has any experience of youth, there’s barely even any time for being a toddler. ...
FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic.
FRANZ KAFKA I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
FRANZ KAFKA Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair
FRANZ KAFKA Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
FRANZ KAFKA I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA Isn’t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying ...
FRANZ KAFKA The meaning of life is that it stops
FRANZ KAFKA It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walke...
FRANZ KAFKA There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the ...
FRANZ KAFKA I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.
FRANZ KAFKA Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dr...
FRANZ KAFKA I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something stric...
FRANZ KAFKA The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA Al in de vroege ochtend, het was bijna nog nacht, had Gregor de gelegenheid de kracht van zijn zojui...
FRANZ KAFKA It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...
FRANZ KAFKA He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap...
FRANZ KAFKA I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot ...
FRANZ KAFKA All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKA Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and ...
FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
FRANZ KAFKA I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, end...
FRANZ KAFKA I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not s...
FRANZ KAFKA They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possib...
FRANZ KAFKA Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
FRANZ KAFKA Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKA Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr i...
FRANZ KAFKA For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKA Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKA In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
FRANZ KAFKA Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are me...
FRANZ KAFKA I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as ...
FRANZ KAFKA I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my h...
FRANZ KAFKA Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist...
FRANZ KAFKA We're not used to thinking of vegetables in creative ways, and consequently the flavors are boring.
BARBARA KAFKA This was one time I didn't have to fight to keep my book healthy. It came easily. All those vegetabl...
BARBARA KAFKA And the lime juice is very important, too – it brings the taste forward in the mouth.
BARBARA KAFKA It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness...
GUSTAV KAFKA The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT