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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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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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
~ Franz Kafka

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Religions get lost as people do.
~ Franz Kafka

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How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.
~ Franz Kafka

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When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands to be believed.
~ Franz Kafka

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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
~ Franz Kafka

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As a flood spreads wider and wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
~ 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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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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