- Novelist | July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka
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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.
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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.
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If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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