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

  Franz Kafka

  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.

  Franz Kafka

  Food, Long, Cooking

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

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Beautiful, Real, Talking

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

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• I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

  Franz Kafka

  Want, Advertising, Advertisements

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Tears, Novelists, Pieces

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• The limited circle is pure.

  Franz Kafka

  Hilarious, Circles, Pure

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

  Franz Kafka

  Doe, Found

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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Chaos, Empty, Uncertain

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

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• Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

  Franz Kafka

  Running, Wall, Cat

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• The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

  Franz Kafka

  Understanding, Matter, Misunderstanding

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 7, 1920.

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• In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

  Franz Kafka

  Lying, Circles, Humans

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Heart, Knives

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• I passed by the brothel as though
  past the house of a beloved.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, House, Beloved

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

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• Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

  Franz Kafka

  Wall, Self, Dust

  Franz Kafka (2002). “Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Other Writings: Franz Kafka”, p.167, A&C Black

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• I carry the bars within me.

  Franz Kafka

  Bars

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• Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Keys, Castles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.23, Schocken

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

  Franz Kafka

  Vanity, Literature, Complacency

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

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• In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

  Franz Kafka

  Struggle, Men, World

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• Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

  Franz Kafka

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Writing

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• Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Mean, Understanding

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

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• Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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  Photography, Eye, Light

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• Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

  Franz Kafka

  World, Way, Innocence

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• Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, May, Determined

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 10, 1920.

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• The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

  Franz Kafka

  Life, Death, Real

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

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• To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Humane

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Aphorisms of Franz Kafka, published in "Parables and Paradoxes" (1946), 9; parody of a statement of Victor Hugo, 1917 - 1918.

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