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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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  Talking, Stupidity, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, Franz Kafka

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• I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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  Thinking, Darkness, Goes On

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• The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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  Religious, Human Nature, Needed

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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  Book, Reading, Blow

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

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  Light, Guillotine, Heavy

  Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick, Ritchie Robertson (2012). “A Hunger Artist and Other Stories”, p.197, Oxford University Press

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• There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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  Infinite, Amount

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Grateful, Facts, Should

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, Schocken

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• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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  Tattoo, Food, Nuts

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• I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

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  Always Trying, Trying, Bones

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• Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

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  Doe, Needs, Earth

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.428, Schocken

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• Kill me, or you are a murderer.

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  Kill Me, Murderer

  Franz Kafka (2003). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Barnes & Noble Classics

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• The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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  Ice, Purpose, Stories

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• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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  Guiding Principles, Guilt, Doubted

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.198, Schocken

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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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  Common, Breathe, Should

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.11, Franz Kafka

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• Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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  Return, Certain

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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  Literature, World

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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  Dog, Answers, Impulse

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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  Writing, Mean, Excess

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.156, Schocken

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• A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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  Book, Ice, Should

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• Love is a drama of contradictions.

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  Drama, Love Is, Contradiction

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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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  Dream, Arms, Faces

  Franz Kafka (1954). “The castle”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

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  Father, Heart, Church

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• Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

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  Children, Insecure, Littles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater: Bilingual Edition”, p.55, Schocken

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• All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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  Literature, Able, Willing

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• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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  Food, Long, Cooking

  "Investigations of a Dog". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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