I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
~ Franz Kafka

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If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
~ Franz Kafka

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

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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
~ Franz Kafka

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The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.
~ Franz Kafka

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A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
~ Franz Kafka

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
~ Franz Kafka

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Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
~ Franz Kafka

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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.
~ Franz Kafka

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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
~ Franz Kafka

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