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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Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him.
~ Franz Kafka

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One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
~ 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 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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
~ Franz Kafka

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Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has.
~ Franz Kafka

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

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die.
~ Franz Kafka

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