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Franz Kafka

Novelist

Born: Jul 3, 1883

Died: Jun 3, 1924

Between Life Only Will World You

Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

Old Beauty Ability See Never Anyone Who Grows Keeps

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. Franz Kafka

You World Wait Will Solitary No Choice Table Remain Simply Freely Feet Ecstasy Still Leave Itself Offer Quiet Roll Sitting Listen Room Choice Your Even Need

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka

Revolution Every Slime Only New Leaves Bureaucracy Behind Evaporates

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. Franz Kafka

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

Book Within Frozen Us Should Sea Serve Ax

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

Free Safer Than Often Chains

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

Will Find Seek Seeks He Does Who Found

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. Franz Kafka

Nature You Suffering Yourself World Free Holding Back Something Could Perhaps Very Hold Your Avoid Sufferings

Evil is whatever distracts. Franz Kafka

Evil Whatever

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

You Fight World Back Between

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

Man Evil Become Seduce Cannot Serpent Mediation Necessary Necessary Evil

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. Franz Kafka

Liberty Drop Earth Atlas He Wished Opinion Permitted Away Creep

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. Franz Kafka

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

Signs First Wish Understanding Beginning Die

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. Franz Kafka

Human Human Beings Beings Association

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical. Franz Kafka

Comforting World Reflect Seems Only Disproportion Things

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

You Before Able Never Were Being Productivity Things

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

Build Possible Would Had Tower Without Permitted Climbing Been Babel

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

Life Our Exactly Gives Fact Task Infinite Being Appearance

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