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Franz Kafka (Writer)

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

— Franz Kafka beauty

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 loneliness

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

— Franz Kafka change

Variant translations: In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world. In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world. In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

— Franz Kafka world

All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.2 Variant translation: All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

— Franz Kafka man

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but hell never see anything

— Franz Kafka courage

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.71

— Franz Kafka time

The Metamorphosis quotes analyzed; study guide & teaching guide with themes, characters, summary, literary devices

— Franz Kafka quotes

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.Paradise

— Franz Kafka knowledge

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution. One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.54

— Franz Kafka spiritual

Translation: Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. - The First Octavo Notebook

— Franz Kafka knowledge

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