More from Franz Kafka

  1. Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
  2. Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite oblit…
  3. Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with h…
  4. Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
  5. In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.
  6. '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 a…
  7. 'You asking me the way?' 'Yes,' I said, 'since I can't find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!' said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, l…
  8. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

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