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Franz Kafka

Birthday: July 03, 1883
Deathday: June 03, 1924
Category: Austrian Poet
Type: Poet
National: Austrian

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A book must be the ax for the frozen sea...

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen...

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the...

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from...

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

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while...

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows...

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

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty,...

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress...

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist,...

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility,...

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

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't...

Dread of night. Dread of not-night....

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of...

Evil is whatever distracts....

From a certain point onward there is no longer any...

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them....

He who seeks does not find, but he who does...

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb....

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls...

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but...

How can one take delight in the world unless one...

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my...

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of...

I have the true feeling of myself only when I...

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of...

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?...

If it had been possible to build the Tower of...

If there is a transmigration of souls then I am...

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless....

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe...

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

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the...

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To...

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things...

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain...

It is often safer to be in chains than to...

It is only our conception of time that makes us...

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under...

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to...

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I...

My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part...

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be...

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication...

No sooner said than done - so acts your man...

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be...

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become...

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of...

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding...

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling...

Productivity is being able to do things that you were...

Religions get lost as people do....

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point...

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly...

So long as you have food in your mouth, you...

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable....

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it...

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the...

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum....

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is...

The experience of life consists of the experience which the...

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our...

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides...

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being...

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce...

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of...

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be...

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It...

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is...

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call...

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational...

We all have wings, but they have not been of...

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall...

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of...

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative...

Writers speak stench....

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the...

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting...

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see...