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Franz Kafka
July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
Nationality: Austrian
Category: Poet
Subcategory: Austrian Poet

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

   

Religions get lost as people do.

   

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.

   

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

   

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

   

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

   

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

   

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

   

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

   

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

   

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

   

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

   

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

   

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

   

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

   

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

   

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

   

The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

   

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

   

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

   

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