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Franz Kafka
Novelist
Born:
Jul 3
,
1883
Died:
Jun 3
,
1924
Between
Life
Only
Will
World
You
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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
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Franz Kafka
Whatever
Something
Does
Nonexistent
Still
Passionately
Exist
Create
Believing
Sufficiently
Desired
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
Happy
Youth
Old
Beauty
Ability
See
Never
Because
Anyone
Who
Grows
Keeps
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
Myself
Loneliness
Will
Alcohol
Dissipate
Lately
Peers
Intoxication
Through
Cheat
Well
Force
Makes
However
Cannot
Sociable
Them
Means
Use
Companionship
Found
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
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Franz Kafka
Truth
Truth Is
Lie
Recognize
Lies
Only
Indivisible
Itself
Anyone
Wants
Cannot
Who
Hence
Things
Two
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
Alone
You
World
Wait
Will
Other
Table
Only
Remain
Feet
Ecstasy
House
Still
Leave
Itself
Listen
Your
Even
Wholly
Present
Necessary
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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