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Franz Kafka
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
How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge? Franz Kafka
World Unless Delight Take How Refuge
Hesitation before birth. 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
Life Life Is A My Life Before Birth Hesitation Rung Bottom Souls Am Then
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
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. Franz Kafka
Life Knowledge Guilt Tree Tree Of Life State Eaten Only Sinful Also Because Irrespective Which
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Franz Kafka
Tyranny Parents Born Educational Methods Selfishness Slavery Two
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
Would Wings Could Been Off Any Avail Them Us Tear
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. Franz Kafka
Knowledge World Say Scanty Outer Outer World Observation Self-Knowledge How Room Compared Thing Inner Inner World
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
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world. Franz Kafka
Struggle Yourself World Between Second
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
Time Law Our Kind Martial Only Fact Name Conception Call Judgement Makes In Fact Us Last
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 spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support. Franz Kafka
Free Spirit Only Support Becomes Ceases
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
Spiritual Nothing Evolution Worthless Perpetual Revolutionary Human Movements Happened Former Decisive Human Evolution Declare Moment Why Right Things
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists. Franz Kafka
Cross Martyrs Allow Body Elevated
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Franz Kafka
Life Experience Matter Mind Consists Spirit Emotion Itself Which Etc
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
Dread of night. Dread of not-night. Franz Kafka
Dread Night
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places. Franz Kafka
Possibilities Hiding Only Escape Again Places Many
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