March 2012
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“Franz Kafka is Dead
He died in a tree from which he wouldn’t come down. “Come...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
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“Suicide is the prisoner who sees a gallows being erected in the prison yard,...”
– Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it...”
– Franz Kafka
February 2012
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“In the dark woods, on the sodden ground, I found my way only by the whiteness of...”
– Franz Kafka
“We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God’s head. Our...”
– Franz Kafka
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“January 20. A little calmer. How needed it was. No sooner is it a little calmer...”
– Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923
“One night I kept on whimpering for water, not I am certain, because I was...”
– Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father (1919)
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“November 21. Complete futility. Sunday. A more than ordinarily sleepless night....”
– Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923
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“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter...”
– Franz Kafka, The Trial
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“When it looks as if you had made up your mind finally to stay at home for the...”
– Franz Kafka, The Sudden Walk
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite...”
– Franz Kafka
“The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the...”
– Franz Kafka
“I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I...”
– Franz Kafka
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“But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which...”
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“If I am condemned, then I am not only condemned to die, but also condemned to...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923
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What do you think about current theme? Should I change it?
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“But back I cannot go, this waste of time, this admission of having been on the...”
– Franz Kafka
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“One must dare to dive and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again —...”
– Franz Kafka
“We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Well, do you think I believe in ghosts? But how can my not believing help me?”
– Kafka, Unhappiness
“To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but...”
– Franz Kafka
“All language is but a poor translation.”
– Franz Kafka
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“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to...”
– Franz Kafka
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“Books are a narcotic.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Silence, I believe, avoids me, as water on the beach avoids stranded fish.”
– Franz Kafka
51215 asked: Thanks for everything! What do you think about the text translation from german to english?
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“Gregor’s glance then turned to the window. The dreary weather—the rain drops...”
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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“‘I don’t know’, I cried in a toneless voice, ‘I really don’t know. If nobody...”
– Franz Kafka, The Excursion into the Mountains
“Paths are made by walking.”
– Franz Kafka
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“I had to restrain myself from putting my arm around his shoulders and kissing...”
– Franz Kafka
If anyone was wondering here is my personal tumblr.
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“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
– The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
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“There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.”
– Kafka, to his dear friend Max Brod
Note: Upon his death in 1924, Kafka requested that his friend Max Brod burn everything he had ever written. Brod, of course, went against Kafka’s wishes and instead published all of his writings posthumously. I find this to be incredibly haunting; if it weren’t...
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I keep thinking how mad Kafka would be if he saw this blog or saw us reading his books.
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“Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it...”
– Franz Kafka, From a letter to Milena Jesenská
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“Instead of helping, you give me less room on my deathbed.”
– Franz Kafka, A Country Doctor
“Why is it meaningless to ask questions? To complain means to put a question and...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923.
“I believed you to be a quiet, reasonable person, and now you suddenly seem...”
– The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
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“No, I didn’t want freedom. Only a way out—to the right or left or anywhere at...”
–
Franz Kafka,
A Report for An Academy
forthelustres asked: my friend, i truly admire your consistent feeds. I feel i know more about kafka through your tidbits of info and quotes (as opposed to the general misconceptions that he was a severely dejected and foreboding and odious individual) it is no wonder the existentialist discern to include him in the bulk of existential writing alongside Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. Keep up the good work.
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“Nor is it perhaps real love when I say that for me you are the most beloved;...”
– Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena.
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“I love you enough to rid myself of anything that might trouble you. I will...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries 1914-1923.
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“A book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
– Franz Kafka, to Oskar Pollak, 1903.
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“Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be...”
– Franz Kafka
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“The limited circle is pure.”
– Franz Kafka
letstalkaboutart asked: I love your tumblr page ! It's pretty cool ;-) ! I can understand how can Kafka be so simple & fastinating ? Keep publishing the things about him :-)