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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened. ↗

— 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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