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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
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Writer speaks a stench.
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We are separated from God on two sides the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
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There is nothing besides a spiritual world what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
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Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.
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I do not see the world at all I invent it.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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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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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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The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
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The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
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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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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
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