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Doe Quotes by Franz Kafka
- If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that…
- I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then…
- He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.
- Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
- By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
- God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
- He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
- I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting…
- If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
- The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on…
- Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking…
- I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys…
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