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

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

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The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.
~ Franz Kafka

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There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
~ Franz Kafka

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka

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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything.
~ Franz Kafka

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