Franz Kafka Zitate auf Englisch

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

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A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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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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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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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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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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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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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

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