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• Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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  Grateful, Facts, Should

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

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• Evil is whatever distracts.

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  Evil, Literature, Madness

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

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• I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

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  Dream, Arms, Faces

  Franz Kafka (1954). “The castle”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.

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  Doe, Answers, Tests

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.401, Everyman's Library

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• Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

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  Book, Keys, Castles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors”, p.23, Schocken

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• Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

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  Dream, Lying, Thinking

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Collected Stories”, p.255, Everyman's Library

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• I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

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  Common, Breathe, Should

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.11, Franz Kafka

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• The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.

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  Father, Heart, Church

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• A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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  Book, Ice, Should

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• The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

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  True Words, Untrue, Mislead

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• This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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  Tears, Novelists, Pieces

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• The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.

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  Motivation, Men, Goal

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

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• From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

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  Courage, Real, Gains

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• As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

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  Learning, School, Individuality

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

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  Doe, Found

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

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• I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

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  Thinking, Darkness, Goes On

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• I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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  Want, Advertising, Advertisements

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• Love is a drama of contradictions.

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  Drama, Love Is, Contradiction

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• Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Writing

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• I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

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  Always Trying, Trying, Bones

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• Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.

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  Photography, Eye, Light

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• Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

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  Writing, Mean, Excess

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.156, Schocken

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• Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.

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  Men, Indestructible

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• I carry the bars within me.

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  Bars

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