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Been Quotes by Franz Kafka
- If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are…
- Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
- We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
- If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
- 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.…
- But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a…
- 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…
- Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where…
- It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
- One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…
- One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark
- Believe passionately in something that still does not exist; You create it. Think nonexisting, 'what's not sufficiently been desired.'
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