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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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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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Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
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Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
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April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.
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In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing.
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Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
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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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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
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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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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
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One reads in order to ask questions
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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