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

  Franz Kafka

  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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• For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

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  Eye, Brain, Watches

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Depressing, Lying, Views

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

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• It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

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  Home, Waiting, World

  Franz Kafka (2011). “The Zurau Aphorisms”, p.108, Random House

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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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• Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

  Franz Kafka

  Littles, Torment

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• Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

  Franz Kafka

  Boring

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Complete Stories”, p.62, Schocken

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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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• 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.

  Franz Kafka

  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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• Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

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  Art, Suffering, Release

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

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• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Demand, Accepted

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

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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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• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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  Education, Time, Laughter

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

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  Spiritual, People, Rope

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

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  Inner Beauty, True Beauty, Youth

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• Picasso only registers the deformities which have not yet penetrated our consciousness. Art is a mirror which goes 'fast' like a watch - sometimes.

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  Art, Mirrors, Watches

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• You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

  Franz Kafka

  Travel, Waiting, Unmasking

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• Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

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  Animal, Compassion, Vegetarianism

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• Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

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  Party, Judging, World

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

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• Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

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  Humility, Men, Solitude

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

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• I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Illness

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• Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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  Health, Despair, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the liturgy.

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  One Day, Roaring, Three

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• Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Writing, Form

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