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Franz Kafka war österreichisch-tschechischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“Go on caring for me.”

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Franz Kafka buch Briefe an Milena

Quelle: Letters to Milena

“…it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”

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Franz Kafka buch Der Process

'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.In the Cathedral
Quelle: The Trial (1920), Chapter 9

“I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.”

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Franz Kafka buch Briefe an Milena

Quelle: Letters to Milena

“And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.”

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Franz Kafka

Quelle: The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.”

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Franz Kafka

“… it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.”

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Franz Kafka Brief an den Vater

Quelle: Letter to His Father

“One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.”

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Franz Kafka buch Das Schloss

Quelle: The Castle (1926)

“My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.”

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Franz Kafka

Quelle: Diaries, 1910 1923

“there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak”

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Franz Kafka Brief an den Vater

Quelle: Letter to His Father

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

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Franz Kafka buch Das Schloss

Quelle: The Castle (1926)

“It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.”

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Franz Kafka buch Briefe an Milena

Quelle: Letters to Milena

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite”

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Franz Kafka

“All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.”

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Franz Kafka buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen

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Variant translation: All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.”

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Franz Kafka buch Briefe an Milena

Quelle: Letters to Milena

“They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives…”

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Franz Kafka buch The Great Wall of China

Quelle: The Great Wall of China