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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Able Before Being Never Productivity Things Were You

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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Bible World

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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Advantage Aware Become Changes Clarity Constantly Diary Keeping Reassuring Suffer Which You

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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Am Feeling Myself Only True Unhappy I Am

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Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Alive Among Anyone Cannot Come Despair Down Fate Hand He His Life Little Needs Note Off Other Over Ruins Sees Terms Ward While Who

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Crush Great Imposing Rather Responsibility Too You Yourself

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Religions get lost as people do.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Get Lost People Religions

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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.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Compared How Inner Inner World Knowledge Observation Outer Outer World Room Say Self-Knowledge Thing World

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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Believing Create Desired Does Exist Passionately Something Still Sufficiently Whatever

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Any Back Certain Certain Point Longer Must Onward Point Reached Turning

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: July 3rd, 1883

Died: June 3rd, 1924

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