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Franz Kafka

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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.


— Franz Kafka


#dying #fear #franz #kafka #life

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.


— Franz Kafka


#i #kiss #may #might #miserable

The limited circle is pure.


— Franz Kafka


#introverts #society #introvert

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.


— Franz Kafka


#classics

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.


— Franz Kafka


#pointless #suicide #logic

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.


— Franz Kafka


#humor

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


— Franz Kafka


#faith

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.


— Franz Kafka


#communication

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.


— Franz Kafka


#book #frozen #must #sea #us

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.


— Franz Kafka


#trials






About Franz Kafka

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Did you know about Franz Kafka?

She became his lover and caused him to become interested in the Talmud. Opinions ranged from the notion that he satirised the bureaucratic bungling of a crumbling Austria-Hungarian Empire to suggesting that he embodied the rise of socialism. During a vacation in July 1923 to Graal-Müritz on the Baltic Sea Kafka met Dora Diamant a 25-year-old kindergarten teacher from an orthodox Jewish family.

He prepared the story collection Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist) for print but it was not publiFranz Kafkad until after his death. His works such as "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis") Der Process (The Trial) and Das Schloss (The Castle) are filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation physical and psychological brutality parent–child conflict characters on a terrifying quest and mystical transformations. He had a complicated and troubled relationship with his father that had a major impact on his writing and he was conflicted over his Jewishness and felt it had little to do with him although it debatably influenced his writing.

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