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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Ability Anyone Beauty Grows Keeps Never Old See Who

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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.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Choice Ecstasy Even Feet Freely Itself Leave Listen Need No Choice Offer Quiet Remain Roll Room Simply Sitting Solitary Still Table Wait Will World You Your

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

~Franz Kafka

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Air Kiss May Might Miserable Night Open Paper Then Well Window You

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Beginning Die First Sign Understanding Wish

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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Become Cannot Evil Man Mediation Necessary Necessary Evil Seduce Serpent

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Avoid Back Could Free Hold Holding Nature Perhaps Something Suffering Sufferings Very World You Your Yourself

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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.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Alcohol Cannot Cheat Companionship Dissipate Force Found However Intoxication Lately Loneliness Makes Means Myself Peers Sociable Them Through Use Well Will

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Behind Bureaucracy Evaporates Every Leaves New Only Revolution Slime

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Ability Anyone Beauty Because Grows Happy Keeps Never Old See Who Youth

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: July 3rd, 1883

Died: June 3rd, 1924

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