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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.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Any Avail Been Could Off Tear Them Us Wings Would

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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Balance Being Better Knowing Maxim May Me Moving Old People Remind Rest Since Sins Sitting Suspicion Than Together Weighed Without You

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Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

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Topics: Everyone He See Truth

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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Consists Emotion Etc Experience Itself Life Matter Mind Spirit Which

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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Acts Done Man Said Sooner Than Worth Your

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If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Am Before Birth Bottom Hesitation Life Life Is A My Life Rung Souls Then I Am

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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Topics: Between History Instant Mankind Strides Taken The History Of Traveler Two

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

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Topics: Again Escape Hiding Many Only Places Possibilities

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We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Also Because Eaten Guilt Irrespective Knowledge Life Only Sinful State Tree Tree Of Life Which

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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

~Franz Kafka

Topics: Born Educational Methods Parents Selfishness Slavery Two Tyranny

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Novelist

Born: July 3rd, 1883

Died: June 3rd, 1924

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