One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.
~ 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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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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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ 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 think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
~ 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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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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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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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
~ Franz Kafka
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