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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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• Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall.

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  Wall, Mean, Night

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

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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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• At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

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  Lips, Amazed, Remarks

  Franz Kafka “Franz Kafka Vol 2”, Lulu.com

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• Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.

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  Writing, Sleep, Mind

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.593, Schocken

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• It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

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  Impossible, Absence, Goodwill

  Franz Kafka (2008). “Amerika: The Missing Person: A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text”, p.166, Schocken

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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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• Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

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  Believe, Mean, Liberty

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

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• it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

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  Lying, Principles, Melancholy

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

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  Time, May, Might

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

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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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• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

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  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Franz Kafka (1993). “Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka”

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• You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

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  Real, Fleeting, Awareness

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.14, Schocken

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• If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

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  Soul, Birth, Life Is

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

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• There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

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  Down And, True Knowledge, Childlike

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

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• Writers speak stench.

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  Literature, Speak

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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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• The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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  Men, Evil, Literature

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

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• So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.

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  Said, Worthless

  Franz Kafka (2012). “Amerika”, p.133, Schocken

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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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• What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

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  Communication, Writing, Thinking

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

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  Inspirational, Men, Done

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• May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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  Kissing, Night, Air

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.94, Schocken

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• And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

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  Goodbye, Long, Trying

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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