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“The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?”

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Franz Kafka buch A Fratricide

"A Fratricide" (1917)

“How much my life has changed, and yet how unchanged it has remained at bottom! When I think back and recall the time when I was still a member of the canine community, sharing in all its preoccupations, a dog among dogs, I find on closer examination that from the very beginning I sensed some discrepancy, some little maladjustment, causing a slight feeling of discomfort which not even the most decorous public functions could eliminate; more, that sometimes, no, not sometimes, but very often, the mere look of some fellow dog of my own circle that I was fond of, the mere look of him, as if I had just caught it for the first time, would fill me with helpless embarrassment and fear, even with despair.”

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Franz Kafka buch Investigations of a Dog

"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)

“Eternal childhood. Life calls again.
It is entirely conceivable that life’s splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. This is the essence of magic, which does not create but summons.”

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Franz Kafka

18 October 1921
The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)

“A cage went in search of a bird.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918), 16

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Verwandlung

The Metamorphosis (1915)

“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”

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Franz Kafka

Was written in a slightly different way by Leo Longanesi in Italian, above form has been attributed to Kafka without evidence.
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Quelle: One Idiot Is One Idiot. Two Idiots Are Two Idiots. Ten Thousand Idiots Are a Political Party, Quote Investigator, 2021-10-08 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/08/idiots/,