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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
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Don't bend don't water it down don't try to make it logical don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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You too have weapons.
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You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.
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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
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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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For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.
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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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They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
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The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.
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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
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