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Franz Kafka citations célèbres
“[52] Dans le combat entre toi et le monde, seconde le monde.”
Réflexions sur le péché, la souffrance, l'espérance et le vrai chemin
Franz Kafka Citations
J. M. Coetzee, Imre Kertész
J. M. Coetzee
“Notre génération est peut-être perdue, mais elle est plus innocente que celle d'avant.”
Les Recherches d'un chien
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Le Château
Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.
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Le Château
Franz Kafka: Citations en anglais
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The Zürau Aphorisms
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Contexte: There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.
One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
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The Zürau Aphorisms
50
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Contexte: Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god.
“The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Contexte: The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
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The Zürau Aphorisms
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Contexte: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
“In man's struggle against the world, bet on the world.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms
52, Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt.
Aphorism 52 in Unpublished Works 1916-1918 http://www.kafka.org/index.php?unpub1916_1918
Variant translations:
In the struggle between yourself and the world, back the world.
In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variante: In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.
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The Zürau Aphorisms
Du kannst Dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist Dir freigestellt und entspricht Deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das Du vermeiden könntest.
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
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Letters to Felice
Variante: You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
Source: Letters to Felice
“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.”
Franz Kafka
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The Zürau Aphorisms
3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Contexte: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Source: book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
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Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena
“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”
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Letters to Milena
Variante: I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.
Source: Letters to Milena
“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque”
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La Métamorphose
Source: The Metamorphosis
“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms
Source: The Zürau Aphorisms
“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
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La Métamorphose
Source: The Metamorphosis
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Letters to Milena
Hat matt nicht die Augen, um sich sie auszureißen und das Herz zum gleichen Zweck? Dabei ist es ja nicht so schlimm, das ist Übertreibung und Lüge, alles ist Übertreibung, nur die Sehnsucht ist wahr, die kann man nicht übertreiben. Aber selbst die Wahrheit der Sehnsucht ist nicht so sehr ihre Wahrheit, als vielmehr der Ausdruck der Lüge alles übrigen sonst. Es klingt verdreht, aber es ist so.
Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist, daß Du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle.
Letter to Milena Jesenská (14 September 1920) http://www.abyssal.de/zitate/liebe.htm
Variant translations:
In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.
Letters to Milena (1952)
“There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.”
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The Zürau Aphorisms
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