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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.
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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
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I can't feel a thing All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.
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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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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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What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.
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I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
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The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.
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Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
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Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, 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.
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