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

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  Past, House, Beloved

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

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• In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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  Struggle, Literature, World

  "The Third Notebook," 8 Dec. 1917 (translation by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins)

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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.

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  Suicide, Mean, Understanding

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

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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.

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  Life, Death, Real

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

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• No one can crave what truly harms him.

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  Harm, Crave

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.81, Schocken

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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  Believe, Doubt, Tests

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

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• To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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  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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• Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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  War, Fate, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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  Dog, Questions And Answers, Rescue

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

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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  Pet, Paradise, Firsts

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

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• If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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  Way, Lost, Knows

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

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• But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

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  What If, Contentment, Comfort

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

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• Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature

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

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• The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

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  Support, Literature, Spirit

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

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  Sun, Misery, Deny

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.112, Schocken

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• One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

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  Women, Struggle, Mean

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

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• Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

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  Sleep, Trying, Going To Sleep

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

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• What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

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  Common, Jew

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• From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you.

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  Courage, Antagonist

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

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• By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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  Inspirational, Life, Crush

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

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• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

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  Past, Thinking, Chaos

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

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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  Men, Arms, Firsts

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

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• I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

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  Strong, Lying, Heart

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.37, Schocken

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