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"People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate merely by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping 1 another. They are tied together by ropes, and it's bad enough when the ropes effectually an private loosen and he drops somewhat lower than the others into empty infinite; ghastly when the ropes break and he falls. That'southward why nosotros should cling to the others."
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"I stand on the terminate platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my ground in this world, in this town, in my family unit. Not even casually could I bespeak any claims that I might rightly accelerate in any direction. I have not fifty-fifty any defense to offering for standing on this platform, property on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant."
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
"My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best function of me."
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"The true manner goes over a rope which is non stretched at any great height but only higher up the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon."
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"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…"
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
"Yous too take weapons."
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"I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly most a tree, immature, beautiful, your optics subduing with their radiance the suffering globe."
― Messages to Milena
― Messages to Milena
"The fact that no one knows where I am is my but happiness. If just I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, fifty-fifty in my unhappiness."
― Messages to Felice
― Messages to Felice
"You will become to know me improve; there are nevertheless a number of horrible recesses in me that yous don't know."
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
"Don't despair, non even over the fact that y'all don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive. And if they don't, then everything is over with here, one time and for all."
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
"My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my simply desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am null but literature and can and desire to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, yet, shatter me completely, and this is past no ways a remote possibility."
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
"One must lie low, no thing how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great system remained, and then to speak, in a state of delicate residual, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the gamble of losing his footing and falling to devastation, while the organization would only correct itself past some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery – since everything interlocked – and remain unchanged, unless, indeed, which was very probable, it became yet more rigid, more vigilant, severer, and more ruthless."
― The Trial
― The Trial
"Don't you want to bring together the states?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran beyond me lone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already nigh deserted. "No, I don't," I said."
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
"Leopards break into the temple and beverage all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, information technology can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual."
― The Zürau Aphorisms
― The Zürau Aphorisms
"The door could not exist heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a groovy misfortune has occurred."
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
"There can exist no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one's ain novel."
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
"No, I didn't imagine my being alone with you the way you do. If I want the impossible, I desire it in its entirety. Entirely solitary, beloved, I wanted u.s. to be entirely solitary on this earth, entirely alone under the sky, and to pb my life, my life that is yours, without distraction and with complete concentration, in you."
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
"I have no memory for things I take learned, nor things I take read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nil, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I exercise know is superficial, and that every 2d question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts come across a wall. I tin grasp the essence of things in isolation, just I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't fifty-fifty tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk."
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
"Let the future sleep for at present, as information technology deserves. If you wake information technology too early, you become a groggy present."
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"Art flies around truth, just with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the nighttime void a place where the axle of low-cal can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before."
― Bluish Octavo Notebooks
― Bluish Octavo Notebooks
"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter dubiousness, the believer believe."
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"Our winters are very long hither, very long and very monotonous. Merely nosotros don't complain virtually it downstairs, we're shielded against the winter. Oh, spring does come somewhen, and summertime, and they last for a while, simply now, looking dorsum, leap and summer seem too short, as if they were not much more than than a couple of days, and even on those days, no matter how lovely the twenty-four hour period, information technology still snows occasionally."
― The Castle
― The Castle
"Information technology receives you when you come up and dismisses yous when you go."
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"But I will write in spite of everything, absolutely; information technology is my struggle for self-preservation."
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
"My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking dorsum over it, life seems then foreshortened that I scarcely sympathize, for instance, how a young human being can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -non to mention accidents- even the bridge of a normal happy life may fall far brusque of the fourth dimension needed for such a journey."
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
"Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives diameter me to my soul."
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"If I didn't accept my parents to remember almost I'd take given in my detect a long fourth dimension ago, I'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what I call back, tell him everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd autumn right off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to exist sitting upward there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from upwardly there, peculiarly when you have to go right upwards close because the boss is hard of hearing."
― The Metamorphosis
― The Metamorphosis
"They did not know what we can now sense equally nosotros contemplate the course of history: that modify begins in the soul before it shows in our lives..."
― The Great Wall of China
― The Great Wall of China
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