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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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• 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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• I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

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  Giving Up, Diaries, I Won't Give Up

  Franz Kafka, Nahum Norbert Glatzer (1974). “I am a memory come alive: autobiographical writings”, 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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• . . . 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

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  Looks, Firsts, Written

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

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  Independent, Guilt, States

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

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  Two, Paradise, Return

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

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• The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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  Travel, Taken, Two

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

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