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Franz Kafka

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.


— Franz Kafka


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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.


— Franz Kafka


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Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.


— Franz Kafka


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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.


— Franz Kafka


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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.


— Franz Kafka


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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.


— Franz Kafka


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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.


— Franz Kafka


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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.


— Franz Kafka


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There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.


— Franz Kafka


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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.


— 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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