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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Boring Footsteps Hollow Made Only Own Point Point Of View Regarded Something View Wood Worn

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It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Comforting Disproportion Only Reflect Seems Things World

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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: His Imagination Misfortune Quixote

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Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Dread Night

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Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Allow Body Cross Elevated Martyrs

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

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Argument Describe Like Love Much Nothing Prove Songs

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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Fall God Him Life Separated Separates Sides Tree Tree Of Life Two Us

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

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Beginning Die First Signs Understanding Wish

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

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Believe Believer Doubt Makes Mankind Something Test Yourself

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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Come Life Marriage Meant More Perhaps Precisely Put Representative Terms Which Woman You

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: July 3rd, 1883

Died: June 3rd, 1924

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