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“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 in our lives…”

Franz Kafka book The Great Wall of China

Source: The Great Wall of China

“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…”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“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 the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.”

Franz Kafka

Source: Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)

“It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill”

Franz Kafka book Amerika

Source: Amerika

“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”

Franz Kafka

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.”

Franz Kafka

“There sat I, a faded being, under faded leaves.”

Franz Kafka

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man”

Franz Kafka

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”

Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

“Like a dog!”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.
Source: The Trial (1920), Ch. 10, end of the book

“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”

Franz Kafka