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“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Verwandlung

Quelle: The Metamorphosis

“Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.”

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Franz Kafka

Quelle: Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

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Franz Kafka

“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”

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Franz Kafka

Quelle: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”

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Franz Kafka

“Like tired dogs they stand there,
because they use up all their strength
in remaining upright in one's memory.”

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Franz Kafka

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

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Franz Kafka

Quelle: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Verwandlung

Quelle: The Metamorphosis

“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variante: Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

“Like a dog!”

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Franz Kafka buch Der Process

he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.
Quelle: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10, end of the book

“"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.”

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Franz Kafka

(June 1914)
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)
Quelle: Diaries of Franz Kafka