May 2012
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“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
– Franz Kafka
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“A book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
– Franz Kafka
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“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to...”
– Franz Kafka
somebodyelsesthoughts asked: Your blog is simply perfect! I cant stop reading, love Franz Kafka.
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“I couldn’t read it for its perversity. The human mind isn’t complicated enough.”
– Albert Einstein, after returning a Kafka novel loaned to him by Thomas Mann.
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“A man was amazed at how easily he went along the road to eternity; the fact was...”
– Franz Kafka, Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope and the True Way
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“Instead of helping, you give me less room on my deathbed.”
– Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor
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“Well, do you think I believe in ghosts? But how can my not believing help me?”
– Kafka, Unhappiness
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“How the two of us, Ottla and I, explode in rage against every kind of human...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923
April 2012
13 posts
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“What will we do in these spring days that are now hurrying toward us? This...”
– Franz Kafka, Absently Gazing Out
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“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Dearest Father,
You asked me recently why I claim to be afraid of you. I did...”
– Franz Kafka, Dearest Father
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“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the...”
– Franz Kafka, Investigations of a Dog
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“Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.”
– Franz Kafka
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“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting...”
– Franz Kafka
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“You can choose to be free, but it’s last decision you’ll ever make.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in...”
– Franz Kafka
“I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me,...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this...”
– Franz Kafka
March 2012
42 posts
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“Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries
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“My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over...”
– Franz Kafka
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“He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.”
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Writer speaks a stench.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the...”
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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“Evil is whatever distracts.”
– Franz Kafka
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“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
– Franz Kafka
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“The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries
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“Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries 1910-1923.
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“Love is a drama of contradictions.”
– Franz Kafka
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“So eager are our people to obliterate the present.”
– Franz Kafka
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“First impressions are always unreliable.”
– Franz Kafka
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“What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Yet he put aside those worries for now, besides, he found Barnabas’ silence...”
– Franz Kafka, The Castle
“I had once more been called out needlessly, I was used to that, the whole...”
– Franz Kafka
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“No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare...”
– Franz Kafka
Anonymous asked: What is the name of your theme?
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“Poor young man, there is no helping you. I discovered your great wound. You are...”
– Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor
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“I came into the world with a beautiful wound; that was all I was furnished...”
– Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor
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“We lead very uneasy lives; each day brings its surprises, anxieties, desires,...”
– Franz Kafka, Josefine, die Sängerine oder Das Volk der Mäuse (Josefine the Singer, or The Mouse People)
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“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a...”
– Franz Kafka