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• It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

  Franz Kafka

  Franz Kafka (2012). “The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text”, p.224, Schocken

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• The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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  Determination, Self, Cosmos

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

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• Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

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  Holiness, Gestures, Holy

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• We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

  Franz Kafka

  Luck, Pieces, Paradise

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

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• All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.

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  Science, Needs, No Fear

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• Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

  Franz Kafka

  Kissing, Drunk, Way

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

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• If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

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  Paradise, Belief, Has Beens

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

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• Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

  Franz Kafka

  Spiritual, Mean, Self

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

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• The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.

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  Pieces, World, Torn

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

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• I passed by the brothel as though
  past the house of a beloved.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, House, Beloved

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

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• If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

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  Notes, Journal, Ifs

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• One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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  Cheating, Victory, World

  Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• In a way, I was safe writing

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Safe, Way

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• There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

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  Goal, Wavering, Way

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• Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

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  Hiding, Possibility, Hiding Place

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

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• There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, Ifs

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

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• One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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  Fighting, Bottom, Ifs

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

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• Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

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  Song, Silence, Singing

  Franz Kafka (1988). “The Complete Stories”, Schocken

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• Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.

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  Men, May, Way

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

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• What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

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  Dregs, Written

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• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

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  Life, Lying, Names

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

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• How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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  Delight, Literature, World

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

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• The cruelty of death lies in the fact that it brings the real sorrow of the end, but not the end. The greatest cruelty of death: an apparent end causes a real sorrow. Our salvation is death, but not this one.

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  Life, Death, Real

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

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• We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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  Tree, Guilt, States

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

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• When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. The ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.... Evil is whatever distracts. Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. One means that Evil has is the dialogue.... One cannot pay Evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.

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  Mean, Evil, Trying

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