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• The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Movement, Evolution

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

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• Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, May, Might

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

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• Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

  Franz Kafka

  Dry, Rats, Drink

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.20, Schocken

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• The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

  Franz Kafka

  Fire, Literature, Want

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

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• Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Tiny, Cases

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• I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Men, Solitude

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• In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Goodness, Certain

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

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• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Franz Kafka (1993). “Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka”

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• Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

  Franz Kafka

  Hiding, Possibility, Hiding Place

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

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• It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

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  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text”, p.224, Schocken

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• The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

  Franz Kafka

  Dream, Art, Halloween

  Franz Kafka (1972). “The Metamorphosis”

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• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

  Franz Kafka

  Positive, Depression, World Suffering

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

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• Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

  Franz Kafka

  Liberty, Atlas, Literature

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

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• From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

  Franz Kafka

  Fall, World, Quiet

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

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• Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

  Franz Kafka

  Holiness, Gestures, Holy

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• Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

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  Writing, Sleep, Night

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• But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, Eternity, Logical

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

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• Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

  Franz Kafka

  Work, Joy, Psychologist

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

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• What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

  Franz Kafka

  Communication, Writing, Thinking

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• Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Done, Arrested

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, 1925.

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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  Fall, Happy Life, Journey

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• What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

  Franz Kafka

  Dregs, Written

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• There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

  Franz Kafka

  Proof

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• To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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  Writing, People, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.140, Schocken

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• All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!

  Franz Kafka

  Dog, Light, Answers

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

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