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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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• In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

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  Evil, Doe, Paradise

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

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• To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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  Writing, People, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.140, Schocken

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• There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

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  Love, Together, Village

  "The Castle". Book by Franz Kafka, 1926.

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• What is gayer than believing in a household god?

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  God, Believe, Belief

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

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• The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

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  Spiritual, Movement, Evolution

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

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

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  Evil, Whiplash, Motive

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

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• Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.

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  Dry, Rats, Drink

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.20, Schocken

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• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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  Fall, Happy Life, Journey

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• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.

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  Dream, Character, Dark

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• The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

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  Unions, Common, Individual

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

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• Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

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  Fall, Tree, Complaining

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

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• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

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  Education, Time, Laughter

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

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• Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

  Franz Kafka

  Work, Joy, Psychologist

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

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• They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

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  Kings, Children, Choices

  Franz Kafka (1961). “Parables and paradoxes: in German and English”

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• Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

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  Liberty, Atlas, Literature

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

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• One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

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  Suffering, Diaries, Clarity

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

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• I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

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  Book, Ignorance, Law

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

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• For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.

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  Lying, Snow, Tree

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Complete Stories”, p.474, Schocken

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• You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

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  Hands, Crosses, Said

  Franz Kafka (2017). “The Trial / Der Proceß: Bilingual Edition: English - German / Zweisprachige Ausgabe: Englisch - Deutsch”, p.19, BookRix

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• From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

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  Fall, World, Quiet

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

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• Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

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  Positive, Depression, World Suffering

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

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• Writer speaks a stench.

  Franz Kafka

  Speak

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• The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

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  God, Law, Faithful

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

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• Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

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  Confusion, Pieces, Firsts

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

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