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• In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Song, Argument

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• People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

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  Moving, Dark, Past

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• In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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  Literature, Goodness, Certain

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

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• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

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  Evil, Demand, Accepted

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

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• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

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  Believe, Mean, Progress

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

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• Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.

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  Children, Insecure, Littles

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater: Bilingual Edition”, p.55, Schocken

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• I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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  Order, People, Able

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.

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  Animal, Humane

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Aphorisms of Franz Kafka, published in "Parables and Paradoxes" (1946), 9; parody of a statement of Victor Hugo, 1917 - 1918.

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• There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

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  Spiritual, Evil, World

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

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• Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such as we, soaked as we are in our terrestial nature, imagine it, for no reflection actually occurs, only we see earth wherever we turn.

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  Reflection, Psychology, World

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

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• No one can crave what truly harms him.

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  Harm, Crave

  Franz Kafka (2015). “Aphorisms”, p.81, Schocken

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• Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward.

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  Sweet, Writing, Rewards

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• The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

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  Art, Lying, Telling The Truth

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• Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

  Franz Kafka

  Littles, Torment

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• Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

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  Two, Perfection, Firsts

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

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• Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.

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  World, Tiny, Cases

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• Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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  Health, Despair, Literature

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

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  Struggle, Literature, World

  "The Third Notebook," 8 Dec. 1917 (translation by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins)

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• The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

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  Mean, Heaven, Doubt

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

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• So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

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  People

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.

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  Proof

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• Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

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  Train Of Thought, Educated, Single Word

  Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir (1958). “The castle”, Schocken

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• Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.

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  Inner Beauty, True Beauty, Youth

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• The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

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  Spiritual, Giving, World

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

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• Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

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  War, Fate, Hands

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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