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

  Franz Kafka

  Littles, Torment

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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.

  Franz Kafka

  Home, Waiting, World

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

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

  Franz Kafka

  Common, Jew

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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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• But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

  Franz Kafka

  Asking, Answers, Moments

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

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  Travel, Waiting, Unmasking

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

  Franz Kafka

  Humility, Men, Solitude

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

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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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• I like to make use of what I know

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  Use, Knows

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.118, Franz Kafka

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• I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

  Franz Kafka

  Loneliness, Vegetarianism, Alcohol

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• We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

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  Fall, Two Sides, Tree

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

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

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  Inner Beauty, True Beauty, Youth

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• The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

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  Mean, Heaven, Doubt

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

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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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• It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

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  Made, Wanted, Has Beens

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.107, Franz Kafka

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• Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

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  Dog, Memories, Tired

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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