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• Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

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  Reflection, Psychology, World

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

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• it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

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  Giving Up, Pain, Worry

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• Anyone who believes cannot experience miracles. By day one does not see any stars. Anyone who does miracles says: I cannot let goof the earth.

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  Letting Go, Stars, Believe

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

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• Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

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  Paradise, Return, Driven

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

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• Writer speaks a stench.

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  Speak

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• There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

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  People, Community, Ordinary

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

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• He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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  Long, Citizens, World

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.66, Schocken

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• This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.

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  Health, Duty, Ifs

  Franz Kafka “1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”

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• Writing [is] a form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Writing, Form

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• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

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  Love, Song, Argument

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• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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  Believe, Mean, Progress

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

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• Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

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  Believe, People, Giving

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.86, Schocken

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• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

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  Life, Lying, Names

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

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• Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

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  Business, Able, Kick Ass

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• A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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  Men, Unhappy, Action

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• Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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  Two, Perfection, Firsts

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

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• He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.

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  Boss, Brain, Tools

  Franz Kafka (2014). “Metamorphosis: The original story by Franz Kafka as well as important analysis”, p.3, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Cosmos

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

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• A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.

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  Inspirational, Light, Belief

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

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• Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

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  Men, May, Way

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

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• The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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  Art, Lying, Telling The Truth

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• No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

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  Inspirational, Men, Done

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• There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

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  Past, Ifs

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

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• People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

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  Moving, Dark, Past

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• Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

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  Kissing, Way, Ghost

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.222, Schocken

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