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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
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Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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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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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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I believe that we should read only those books that bite and sting us. If a book we are reading does not rouse us with a blow to the head, then why read it?
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