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“We too must suffer all the suffering around us. We all have not one body, but we have one way of growing, and this leads us through all anguish, whether in this or in that form. Just as the child develops through all the stages of life right into old age and to death (and fundamentally to the earlier stage the later one seems out of reach, in relation both to desire and to fear), so also do we develop (no less deeply bound up with mankind than with ourselves) through all the sufferings of this world. There is no room for justice in this context, but neither is there any room either for fear of suffering or for the interpretation of suffering as a merit.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man, and this immediately, though, of course, only in the case of complete and permanent humility. It can do this because it is the true language of prayer, at once adoration and the firmest of unions. The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment — an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

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

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.”

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“To animalise is humane, to humanise is animal.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

9; parody of a statement of Victor Hugo
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“I am not well. I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

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Franz Kafka buch Letters to Felice

Quelle: Letters to Felice (Dopisy Felici)

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

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Franz Kafka

Variante: What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”

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Franz Kafka buch Der Process

Variante: It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.
Quelle: The Trial

“Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don't eat you anymore.”

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Comment to a fish, after becoming a vegetarian, p. 74 http://books.google.com/books?id=6TNVWo7S6n8C&amp;pg=PA74&amp;dq=kafka+look+peace+eat#PPA74,M1 <br class="br">Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960)

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary”

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Franz Kafka buch Parables and Paradoxes

Variant translation: The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but at the very last.
Parables and Paradoxes (1946)
Kontext: The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival; he will come, not on the last day, but on the very last day.