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• There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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  Way, Destination, Hesitation

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.26, Schocken

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• Kill me, or you are a murderer.

  Franz Kafka

  Kill Me, Murderer

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

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• One reads in order to ask questions

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  Order, Asks

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

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• The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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  Motivation, Men, Goal

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

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• From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

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  Courage, Real, Gains

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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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• Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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  Vanity, Literature, Complacency

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

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

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  Tattoo, Food, Nuts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Tears, Novelists, Pieces

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• There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

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  Beautiful, Real, Talking

  "In the penal settlement: tales and short prose works".

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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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• Love is a drama of contradictions.

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  Drama, Love Is, Contradiction

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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 am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

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  Chaos, Empty, Uncertain

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

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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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• 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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• Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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  Dog, Memories, Tired

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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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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