Franz Kafka: Zitate auf Englisch

Franz Kafka war österreichisch-tschechischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance.”

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Franz Kafka

“Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.”

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Franz Kafka

“Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.”

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Franz Kafka

“I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.”

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Franz Kafka buch Briefe an Milena

Quelle: Letters to Milena

“Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible," she said, "but that alone doesn't make it true.”

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Franz Kafka

"Description of a Struggle".
The Complete Stories (1971)

“You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know.”

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Franz Kafka buch Letters to Felice

Quelle: Letters to Felice‎

“There can be no more beautiful spot to die in, no spot more worthy of total despair, than one’s own novel.”

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Franz Kafka

Quelle: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“In a way, I was safe writing”

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Franz Kafka Brief an den Vater

Quelle: Letter to His Father

“The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.”

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Franz Kafka buch Letters to Felice

Quelle: Letters to Felice‎

“Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“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.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“The thornbush is old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”

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Franz Kafka buch The Blue Octavo Notebooks

The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)