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Famous Franz Kafka Quotes
“Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.”
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.”
“I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.”
“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
“Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.”
“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”
“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”
“Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.”
“Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”
“One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.”
“In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.”
“Religions get lost as people do.”
“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”