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• My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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  Fear, Fearless, Substance

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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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• 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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• All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

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  Patience, Errors, Issues

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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

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  Literature

  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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• 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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• All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

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  Science, Needs, No Fear

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• Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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  Self, Literature, Association

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

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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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• 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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• No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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  Depressing, Lying, Views

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.175, Franz Kafka

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• I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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  Order, People, Able

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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  Sky, Evil, Starry Sky

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

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• There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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  Spiritual, Evil, World

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

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• We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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  Eye, Order, Mind

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