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• There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.

  Franz Kafka

  Infinite, Amount, Universe

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• We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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  Suicide, Book, Grieving

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

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  Funny, Fighting, Literature

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

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  Men, Arms, He Man

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• Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.

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  Philosophical, Sleep, Men

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• There's an infinite amount of hope but not for us.

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  Infinite, Amount

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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  Book, Reading, Blow

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

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  Return, Certain

  Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

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• Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

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  Running, Wall, Cat

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• A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

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  Writing, Lawyer, Persons

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• First impressions are always unreliable.

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  First Impression, Firsts, Impression

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• They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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  Talking, Stupidity, Understanding

  Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, Franz Kafka

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• There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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  Patience, Art, Spring

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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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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  "Readers recommend: songs about books" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2015.

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• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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  Depression, Health, World Suffering

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

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• The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.

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  Ice, Purpose, Stories

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• Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

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  Light, Guillotine, Heavy

  Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick, Ritchie Robertson (2012). “A Hunger Artist and Other Stories”, p.197, Oxford University Press

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• The truth is always an abyss.

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  Truth Is, Abyss

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• All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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  Literature, Able, Willing

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• A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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  Writing, Insanity, Monsters

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• Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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  Fear, Night, Dread

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

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• In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.

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  Struggle, Men, World

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• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

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  Tattoo, Food, Nuts

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• If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

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  Tomorrow, Immortality, Ifs

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

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• The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

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  Literature, World

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

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