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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

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

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#avoid #back #could #free #hold

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#always #breath #complacency #draw #first

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#been #believing #does #made #mean

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#anyone #beauty #because #grows #happy

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#before #being #never #productivity #things

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#book #frozen #sea #serve #should

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#does #gives #god #nuts #them