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Franz Kafka

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


— Franz Kafka


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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.


— Franz Kafka


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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.


— Franz Kafka


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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.


— Franz Kafka


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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.


— Franz Kafka


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Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.


— Franz Kafka


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Evil is whatever distracts.


— Franz Kafka


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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.


— Franz Kafka


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In the fight between you and the world, back the world.


— Franz Kafka


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In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.


— Franz Kafka


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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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