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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cannot #cheat #companionship #dissipate #force

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#forced #get #into #man #out

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#great #imposing #rather #responsibility #too

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#beings #human #human beings #into #lures

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#before #birth #bottom #hesitation #i

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

#being #better #knowing #maxim #may

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#history #instant #mankind #strides #taken

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#aid #development #investment #pillars #recognise

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#kept #quiet #survive #these #to survive

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region. ↗

— Paul Kagame

#great #great step #one day #peace #problems