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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.
Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.
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What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
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Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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there is nothing bad to fear once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
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You too have weapons.
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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us. What was ordained for us has been changed it is not said that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.
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If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.
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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.
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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.
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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
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The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.
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Sometimes I'd like to stuff all Jews (myself included) into the drawer of a laundry basket. then open it to see if they've suffocated
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