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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9b5c7c1 | One does not have to believe everything is true, one only has to believe it is necessary. | Franz Kafka | ||
| b5d7824 | The conclusion to be drawn from this was that this was in its way a quite different sort of fatigue from K.'s. Here it was doubtless fatigue amid happy work, something that outwardly looked like fatigue and was actually indestructible repose, indestructible peace. If one is a little tired at noon, that is part of the happy natural course of the day. 'For the gentlemen here it is always noon,' K. said to himself. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 3b11496 | The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it. | soul | Franz Kafka | |
| 2e4c265 | Wir brauchen aber die Bucher, die auf uns wirken wie ein Ungluck, das uns sehr schmerzt, wie der Tod eines, den wie lieber hatten als uns, wie wenn wir in Walder verstossen wurden, von allen Menschen weg, wie ein Selbstmord, ein Buch muss die Axt sein fur das gefrorene Meer in uns. | Franz Kafka | ||
| c6e9786 | Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" | Franz Kafka | ||
| 74400c8 | Now, quite apart from the fact that the doors were locked, should he really call out for help? In spite of all his distress, he was unable to suppress a smile at this idea. | Franz Kafka | ||
| d262dfe | Hier war es wohl die Mudigkeit inmitten glucklicher Arbeit; etwas, was nach aussen hin wie Mudigkeit aussah und eigentlich unzerstorbare Ruhe, unzerstorbarer Frieden war. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0c01e4c | The correspondence on this subject brings one again and again to the conclusion that you're united by an all but sacramental indissoluble marriage (...) to your husband, and I by a similar marriage to - I don't know whom, but the eye of this terrible wife often lies on me, I feel it. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 775d13d | For I underestimate myself, and that itself means an overestimation of others | Franz Kafka | ||
| d77bb73 | Franz Kafka wrote, "It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you." And Kafka was born a century before the Internet!" | Austin Kleon | ||
| 1af5a4a | I hope it is nothing serious. On the other hand, I must also say that we business people, luckily or unluckily, however one looks at it, very often simply have to overcome a slight indisposition for business reasons. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 90869f1 | Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares. Another said: I bet that is also a parable. The first said: You have won. The second said: But unfortunately only in parable. The first said: No, in reality; in parable you have lost. | parables reality struggle | Franz Kafka | |
| bae64eb | Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet, once said, "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet." | Deepak Chopra | ||
| 4e71e9d | An und fur sich ist uns das Lachen immer nah; trotz allem Jammer unseres Lebens ist ein leises Lachen bei uns gewissermassen immer zu Hause. | german | Franz Kafka | |
| 4b5f478 | For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in common with the enterprise that are the most useful. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 52ea5ea | Evidentemente, soy muy ignorante, la verdad es esa, y es muy triste para mi, pero esto supone una ventaja: El ignorante osa a mas cosas. Tambien estoy preparado para soportar todavia un poco la ignorancia y sus consecuencias -malas, de acuerdo- tanto como resistan mis fuerzas. | ignorance | Franz Kafka | |
| 362d412 | lHb blnsb@ ly hw 'nk lskyn lty 'dyrh mGrws@ fy dkhly | Franz Kafka | ||
| 55d0370 | I wish I had a strong hand for the sole purpose of thrusting it into this incoherent construction that I am. And yet what I am saying here is not even precisely my opinion, not even precisely my opinion at this moment. When I look into myself I see so much that is obscure and still in flux that I cannot even properly explain or fully accept the dislike I feel for myself. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 5f965f1 | Ashima feels lonely suddenly, horribly, permanently alone, and briefly, turned away from the mirror, she sobs for her husband. She feels overwhelmed by the thought of the move she is about to make, to the city that was once home and is now in its own way foreign. She feels both impatience and indifference for all the days she still must live, for something tells her she will not go quickly as her husband did. For thirty-three years she miss.. | Jhumpa Lahiri | ||
| 84aed34 | Seeing as he wasn't very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting. | Nick Hornby | ||
| b095dde | lm ybtl` ltrykh 'fkrh w `wTfh fqT, bl btl` zmn Hyth w yq`h, nh lrjl ldhy lthmh ltrykh, nh lys 'kthr mn Hshw bshry lltrykh. w qd knt llrwy'y jr'@ ltqT hdh lhwl | Milan Kundera | ||
| d30d83c | ankhs khh `shq dygry myshwd byd pyshpysh - hmchw srbzy khh tslym myshwd - slHhy khwd r bh dwr ndzd w drHlykhh khwd r bydf` mybynd, dr ntZr khwrdn Drbh bshd. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 71c30ec | chgwnh mytwn bh lHZhy khh drd byhwdh myshwd, py brd? chgwnh myshwd an lHZhy khh zndgy dygr rzsh ndrd, tshkhyS dd? | Milan Kundera | ||
| ee3951b | Cada possibilidade nova que tem a existencia, ate a menos provavel, transforma a existencia inteira. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2712e0a | Si las personas solo fueran responsables de lo que hacen conscientemente, los idiotas estarian de antemano libres de cualquier culpa | Milan Kundera | ||
| 4e8533f | Znaete li, az mislia, che zhivot't triabva da se priema tak'v, kak'vto e. (...) Vsichko e v bozhiite r'tse i nie ne znaem nishcho za utreshniia den, s koeto iskam da kazha, che da priemash zhivota tak'v, kak'vto e, oznachava da priemesh nepredskazuemoto. A deteto e negov s'biratelen obraz. Deteto e samata nepredskazuemost. Ne znaesh kakvo shche izleze ot nego, kakvo shche ti donese i tochno zatova triabva da go priemesh. V protiven sluchai .. | непредсказуемост живот | Milan Kundera | |
| 7d4ecca | Samo sluchainostta mozhe da se t'lkuva kato poslanie. Onova, koeto stava po neobkhodimost, koeto e ochakvano, koeto se povtaria vseki den, e niamo. Samo sluchainostta otpravia glas k'm nas. Nie se opitvame da ia razchitame, kakto tsigankite razchitat figurite v kafeenata utaika po d'noto na chashata. | Milan Kundera | ||
| fe51882 | Onova, koeto otlichava obrazovaniia chovek ot samoukiia, ne e kolichestvoto znanie, a razlichnata stepen na vitalnost i samochuvstvie. | Milan Kundera | ||
| b61b30b | he tried to remind himself , don't think about her! don't think about her! he said to himself, i am sick with compassion | Milan Kundera | ||
| bcf009f | Pravda, u stvari, i ne treba da nas previse zanima. Pravda nije ljudska stvar. Postoji pravda slijepih i krutih zakona, a osim nje mozda i neka visa pravda, ali tu ja ne razumijem. Uvijek mi se cinilo da na ovom svijetu zivim izvan pravde. Pravda me se ne tice. Pravda je nesto izvan mene i iznad mene. Kako god se uzme, nesto neljudsko. Nikad necu suradivati s tom odvratnom silom. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 70c41f7 | Chovek niama kak da znae kakvo bi triabvalo da iska, zashchoto zhivee edin-edinstven zhivot i ne mozhe da go sravniava s predishnite si zhivoti, nito p'k da go popravi v sledvashchite. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a89e92d | lHy@ 'qw~ mn lmwt, l'n lHy@ ttGdh~ `l~ lmwt! | Milan Kundera | ||
| fe46651 | Es que hasta la alegria que produce la presencia del hombre a quien se ama se siente mejor a solas. Si la presencia fuera de el continua, solo estaria presente en su constante transcurrir. Detenerla solo es posible en los ratos de soledad | love soledad solitude | Milan Kundera | |
| e5a8cf9 | Musicians had been assholes since the day the lute was invented. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fa31ac9 | hw'l ldhyn y`tqdwn 'n l'nZm@ lshyw`y@ fy 'wrwb lshrqy@ hy fqT mn Sn` mjrmyn, fnhm yGflwn Hqyq@ 'ssy@: l'nZm@ lmjrm@ lm yunshy'h 'ns mjrmwn wnm 'ns mtHmswn wmuqtn`wn b'nhm wjdw lTryq lwHyd ldhy yw'dy l~ ljn@. f'khdhw ydf`wn bbsl@ `n hdh lTryq, wmn 'jl hdh qmw b`dm lkthyryn. thm, fym b`d, 'SbH jly wwDH 'kthr mn lnhr, 'n ljn@ lyst mwjwd@ w'n lmtHmsyn knw dh mjrd sfHyn. | Milan Kundera | ||
| d6c7e84 | Plus vaste est le temps que nous avons laisse derriere nous, plus irresistible est la voix qui nous invite au retour | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6421249 | Co-incidencia significa que dos acontecimientos inesperados ocurren al mismo tiempo, que se encuentran | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6ca703e | So o acaso pode nos parecer uma mensagem. Aquilo que acontece por necessidade, aquilo que e esperado e se repete cotidianamente e coisa muda apenas. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f581ba2 | O acaso tem seus sortilegios, a necessidade nao. Para que um amor seja inesquecivel, e preciso que os acasos se encontrem nele desde o primeiro instante como os passaros nos ombros de Sao Francisco de Assis. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a7ec198 | jt lt`ysh m`h hrb@ mn `lm 'mh Hyth jmy` l'jsd mtswy@. jt lt`ysh m`h aml@ 'n ySbH jsdh fryd wGyr qbl llstbdl. lkn, h hw bdwrh yrsm bnfsh lshr@ lty tswyh bl'khryt : fhw kn yqblhn jmy` blTryq@ nfsh wyGdq `lyhn lmd`bt dhth wlm ykn hnk frq wHd, wl frq, 'y frq byn jsd tyryz wl'jsd l'khr~. kn qd '`dh l~ l`lm ldhy Zy't 'nh 'fltt mnh, 'rslh ltsyr `ry@ fy rkb lns l`ryt | Milan Kundera | ||
| c7ffe09 | Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences (...) They are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif (...) Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. (...) it is right to chide man for being b.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| dc83672 | when she looked longer at herself in her new dress, it was she but she living a different life, the life she would have lived if she had stayed in Prague. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2f30d29 | Cuanto mas pesada sea la carga, mas a ras de tierra estara nuestra vida, mas real y verdadera sera. Por el contrario, la ausencia absoluta de carga hace que el hombre se vuelva mas ligero que el aire, vuele hacia lo alto, se distancie de la tierra, de su ser terreno, que sea real solo a medias y sus movimientos sean tan libres como insignificantes. Entonces, ?que hemos de elegir? ?El peso o la levedad? * Lo que solo ocurre una vez es como s.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3c61ad7 | Lorsque le coeur a parle, il n'estpas convenable que la raison eleve des objections. Au royaume du Kitsch s'exerce la dictature du coeur. | Milan Kundera |