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(1883–1924) short story writer Cisleithania

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[Wikidata] Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)... | [Wikipedia] Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surre

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• The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us. Axe
• Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light. Faith
• We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like… Affect
• People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… Abyss
• Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and… Ad
• there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak All
• Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. Direction
• 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… Beginning
• The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature… Aspect
• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with… Arms
• Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. Book
• and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in… Ambiguous
• The limited circle is pure. Circle
• No one can crave what truly harms him. Crave
• He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to… Access
• Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts. Destination
• I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity. Always Write
• What am I doing here in this endless winter? Endless
• Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude… All
• Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at… Corpse
• 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… Begins
• There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such… Alive
• That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head,… Body
• At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no… Amazed
• Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world... Chaos

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