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Own Quotes by Franz Kafka
- Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.
- All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could…
- The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
- A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
- Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most…
- Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
- Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going,…
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