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• It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

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  Comforting, World, Seems

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

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• In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

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  Evil, Doe, Paradise

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

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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

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• Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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  Evil, Deception, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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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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  Tree, Guilt, States

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

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• If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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  Soul, Birth, Life Is

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

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• It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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  Impossible, Absence, Goodwill

  Franz Kafka (2008). “Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text”, p.166, Schocken

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• In a way, I was safe writing

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  Writing, Safe, Way

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• The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

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  Seduction, Assuming, Sometimes

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

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• Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

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  Imagination, Misfortunes

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

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• Writers speak stench.

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  Literature, Speak

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• So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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  People

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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  Sweet, Writing, Rewards

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• 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.

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  Real, Fleeting, Awareness

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.14, Schocken

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• The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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  Travel, Taken, Two

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

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• Religions get lost as people do.

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  People, Literature, Lost

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

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• There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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  Down And, True Knowledge, Childlike

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

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• We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

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  Luck, Pieces, Paradise

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

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• May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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  Kissing, Night, Air

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.94, Schocken

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• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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  Mean, Evil, Trying

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• it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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  Lying, Principles, Melancholy

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

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  Believe, Mean, Liberty

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

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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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  Winter, Dark, Night

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• At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

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  Lips, Amazed, Remarks

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

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• The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

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  Love, Men, Doe

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

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