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Franz Kafka

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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.


— Franz Kafka


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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.


— Franz Kafka


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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.


— Franz Kafka


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Writers speak stench.


— Franz Kafka


#stench #writers

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.


— Franz Kafka


#bureaucracy #evaporates #every #leaves #new

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.


— Franz Kafka


#anyone #beauty #grows #keeps #never

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.


— Franz Kafka


#being #long #mouth #questions #solved

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.


— Franz Kafka


#back #certain #certain point #longer #must

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.


— Franz Kafka


#forced #get #into #man #out

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.


— Franz Kafka


#among #anyone #cannot #come #despair






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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