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• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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  Food, Long, Cooking

  "Investigations of a Dog". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• The limited circle is pure.

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  Hilarious, Circles, Pure

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. 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. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.

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  Beautiful, Real, Talking

  "In the penal settlement: tales and short prose works".

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• Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

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  Dog, Answers, Impulse

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

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• sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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  Sleep, Men, Guilty

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.22, Schocken

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• All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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  Dog, Questions And Answers, Rescue

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

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• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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  Guiding Principles, Guilt, Doubted

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.198, Schocken

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• The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

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  Religious, Human Nature, Needed

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• In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

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  Lying, Circles, Humans

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

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  Sky, Evil, Starry Sky

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

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• There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.

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  Way, Destination, Hesitation

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.26, Schocken

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• No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

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  Depressing, Lying, Views

  Franz Kafka (2016). “The Trial”, p.175, Franz Kafka

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• My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

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  Fear, Fearless, Substance

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• One reads in order to ask questions

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  Order, Asks

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

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• Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

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  Vanity, Literature, Complacency

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

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• Kill me, or you are a murderer.

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  Kill Me, Murderer

  Franz Kafka (2003). “The Metamorphosis and Other Stories”, Barnes & Noble Classics

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• Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible, but that alone doesn't make it true.

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  Boring

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Complete Stories”, p.62, Schocken

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• Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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  Vices, Crowns, Literature

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

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• Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

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  Men, May, Determined

  "The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 10, 1920.

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• I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

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  Strong, Lying, Heart

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.37, Schocken

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• I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

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  Chaos, Empty, Uncertain

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

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

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  Pet, Paradise, Firsts

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

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• This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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  Morning, Heart, Knives

  Franz Kafka (1971). “1910-1913. Tr. by Joseph Kresh”

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• Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world.

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  World, Way, Innocence

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• Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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  Self, Literature, Association

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

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