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Franz Kafka

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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.


— Franz Kafka


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One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.


— Franz Kafka


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Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.


— Franz Kafka


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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.


— Franz Kafka


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The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.


— Franz Kafka


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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.


— Franz Kafka


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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.


— Franz Kafka


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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.


— Franz Kafka


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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.


— Franz Kafka


#night

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.


— Franz Kafka


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About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka Quotes




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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