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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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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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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.
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Going to pieces. To go to pieces so pointlessly and unnecessarily.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.
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Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
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The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.
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