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Franz Kafka

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


— Franz Kafka


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


— Franz Kafka


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


— Franz Kafka


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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.


— Franz Kafka


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


— Franz Kafka


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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.


— Franz Kafka


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


— Franz Kafka


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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.


— Franz Kafka


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


— Franz Kafka


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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.


— 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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