Franz Kafka quotes
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
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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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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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