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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
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it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.
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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.
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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
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Writing [is] a form of prayer.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
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There is a destination but no way there what we refer to as way is hesitation.
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it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: i'm giving up but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.
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In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing.
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From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
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The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.
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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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It is strange how little sharpsightedness women possess they only notice whether they please, then whether they arouse pity, and finally, whether you look for compassion from them. That is all come to think of it, it may even be enough, generally speaking.
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
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Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.
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A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.
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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.
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