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Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make
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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing but from their silence, certainly never.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.
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Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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Religions get lost as people do.
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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
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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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There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.
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The Bible is a sanctum the world, sputum.
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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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