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Franz Kafka

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It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.


— Franz Kafka


#inspirational

That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.


— Franz Kafka


#family

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.


— Franz Kafka


#conception #fact #in fact #judgement #kind

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


— Franz Kafka


#second #struggle #world #yourself

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.


— Franz Kafka


#imagination #misfortune #quixote

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.


— Franz Kafka


#before #birth #bottom #hesitation #i

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.


— Franz Kafka


#been #build #climbing #had #permitted

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


— Franz Kafka


#between #fight #world #you

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.


— Franz Kafka


#good #sense

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?


— Franz Kafka


#exist #how #i #shall #tomorrow






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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