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You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

Franz Kafka

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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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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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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well whichever you prefer.
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