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Franz Kafka Quotes

«My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication--it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness--it is all that I have--and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.»
«Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | About: Writing | Keywords: reward, sweet, wonderful, writing
«God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | Keywords: crack, nuts
«In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | About: Arguments | Keywords: argument, describe, prove, simile, similes, songs
«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.»
Author: Franz Kafka (Writer) | Keywords: at rest, maxim, suspicion, weighed
«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.»
«So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.»
«Leopards break into the temple and drink the sacrificial chalices dry; this occurs repeatedly, again and again; finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes part of the ceremony»
«All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.»
«A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.»

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