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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 person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people.… Been
• The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday… Abyss
• I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. Book
• There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation. Destination
• For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling.… Appearance
• The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to… Any
• I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. All
• Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It… All
• The meaning of life is that it stops. Death
• I am free and that is why I am lost. Free
• I am a cage, in search of a bird. Bird
• You too have weapons. Funny
• The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. Find
• Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. Faith
• There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us. Amount
• Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself. Inspirational
• If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal) Came
• And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that… Any
• We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes. Drive
• What is written is merely the dregs of experience. Dregs
• I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner. Construction
• Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm. Alone
• The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is… Art
• First impressions are always unreliable. Always Unreliable
• My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance,… Accidents

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