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3ea3e02
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In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about this, and then he asks if he'll be able to go in later on. "That's possible," says the doorkeeper, "but not now". The gateway to the law is open as it always is, and the doorkeeper has stepped to one side, so the man bends over to try and see in...
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Franz Kafka |
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3e77735
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Asking questions were the most important thing.
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questioning
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Franz Kafka |
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c63c6ee
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Intrusive, thoughtless people!" said K. as he turned back into the room. The supervisor may have agreed with him, at least K. thought that was what he saw from the corner of his eye. But it was just as possible that he had not even been listening as he had his hand pressed firmly down on the table and seemed to be comparing the length of his fingers."
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social
rude
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Franz Kafka |
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9df0140
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Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
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heart
pluck
today
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Franz Kafka |
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f25d5c6
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'mm lqnwn- frnz kfk
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Franz Kafka |
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4dbc5b2
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Guilt is never to be doubted.
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guilt
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Franz Kafka |
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c15d5ab
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E bom quando nossa consciencia sofre grandes ferimentos, pois isso a torna mais sensivel a cada estimulo. Penso que devemos ler apenas livros que nos ferem, que nos afligem. Se o livro que estamos lendo nao nos desperta como um soco no cranio, por que perder tempo lendo-o? Para que ele nos torne felizes, como voce diz? Oh Deus, nos seriamos felizes do mesmo modo se esses livros nao existissem. Livros que nos fazem felizes poderiamos escreve..
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metamorforphosis
kafka
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Franz Kafka |
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c11e11e
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The moonlight lay everywhere with the natural peace that is granted to no other light.
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Franz Kafka |
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a17f87b
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In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thoroughness or any special, strong interest, but rather, to the extent that weakness in thinking was not the cause, because of sorrow and fear - sorrow, because the present was so sad for me that I thought I could not leave it before it resolved itself i..
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sorrow
future
fear
unworthy
counterfeit
unattainable
impossible
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Franz Kafka |
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ddab260
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Agreement is the best weapon of defense--and the matter would be buried.
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buried
defense
matter
weapon
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Franz Kafka |
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4820bb2
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Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida este dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible, muy lejos. Sin embargo esta ahi, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto. Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama.
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Franz Kafka |
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2eea27e
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There is a story, for instance, that has very much the ring of truth about it. It goes like this: One of the older officials, a good and peaceful man, was dealing with a difficult matter for the court which had become very confused, especially thanks to the contributions from the lawyers. He had been studying it for a day and a night without a break -- as these officials are indeed hard working, no-one works as hard as they do. When it was ..
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Franz Kafka |
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eacb4bd
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He advertido, de pronto, que en realidad no recuerdo su rostro en detalle. Solo creo ver aun su figura, su vestido, mientras usted se alejaba entre las mesas del cafe.
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Franz Kafka |
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65cab45
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bazen karsilikli iki kapisi olan bir odamiz varmis gibi geliyor; ikimiz de kendi kapimizin kolunu tutuyoruz, birimiz gozunu kirpsa, digerimiz kendi kapisinin ardina kaciveriyor ve ilki tek bir soz soylemeye kalksa ikincisi kesinlikle coktan kapiyi arkasindan kilitlemis ve gozden kaybolmus oluyor. kapiyi tekrar acacak, cunku bu belkide insanin terk edemedigi bir oda. ilki ikincisine bu kadar benzemese, sakin olsa, otekine bakmiyormus gibi ..
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Franz Kafka |
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0f283b5
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And I could never understand why you were insensitive to the sorrow and shame you inflicted on me with your words and judgements - it was as if you didn't sense your own power. And I certainly made you ill with words; but I knew what I was doing, though it hurt me, but I couldn't control myself, I couldn't hold back my words - though I regretted them. But you landed blows with your words and you were clueless - you never pitied anybody, n..
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Franz Kafka |
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dd5a5bd
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Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.
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Franz Kafka |
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c8aca2f
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Yetkin, ama aci veren bir buyu ile buradasiniz! Benim burada oldugum gibi, daha da elle tutulur bicimde; ben neredeysem siz de oradasiniz, benim oldugum kadar, daha da belirli.
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love
letters-to-milena
milena
letters
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Franz Kafka |
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f2ad812
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Above all, the free man is superior to the man who has to serve another.
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Franz Kafka |
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219da50
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If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.
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time
solved
questions
jaws
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Franz Kafka |
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9575d10
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I did not fall heavily, nor did I feel any pain, but I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be one's guard against them. Yet nothing seemed more natural than to lie here on the grass, my arms beside my body, my face hidden.
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Franz Kafka |
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c233642
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You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.
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haunting
letters
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Franz Kafka |
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786b6a5
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He speaks to Klamm, but is it Klamm? Isn't it rather someone who merely resembles Klamm? Perhaps at the very most a secretary who is a little like Klamm and goes to great lengths to be even more like him and tries to seem important by affecting Klamm's drowsy, dreamlike manner. That part of his being is easiest to imitate, many try to do so; as for the rest of his being, though, they wisely steer clear of it. And a man such as Klamm, who is..
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Franz Kafka |
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8eb6531
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Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
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Franz Kafka |
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c700321
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It seems so dreadful to be a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation whenever one wants to spend an evening in company, having to carry one's meal home in one's hand, unable to expect anyone with a lazy sense of calm confidence, able only with difficulty and vexation to give a gift to someone, having to say good night at the front door, never being able to run up a stairway beside one'..
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Franz Kafka |
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8cdfbde
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Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.
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Franz Kafka |
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2170499
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room.
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Franz Kafka |
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1ec7436
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Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast. But he did not do so, he merely turned his head, which was still free to move, and gazed around him. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he c..
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Franz Kafka |
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471d8e5
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In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat.
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Franz Kafka |
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a1ae8e3
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The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past.
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Franz Kafka |
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a585d7b
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Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live.
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Franz Kafka |
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f942ad6
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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
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Franz Kafka |
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2697920
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And here was your mysterious innocence and invulnerability: you abused others without regret, and you condemned abuse, and said it was forbidden. You backed your derision with threats, for example, 'I'll rip you apart like a fish.' And that was dreadful to me, even though I knew that nothing bad would happen (yet as a young child I didn't know this), but your words served as a sign of your power, and you always seemed capable of doing som..
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Franz Kafka |
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6f83ae2
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How many days have again gone silently by; today is 28 May. Have I not even the resolution to take this penholder, this piece of wood, in my hand every day? I really think I do not. I row, ride, swim, lie in the sun.
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Franz Kafka |
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7173de8
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I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason.
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Franz Kafka |
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746fa2f
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Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general?" Kafka replied as if from an astral distance: "You write: 'Why be more afraid of love than of other things in life?' And just before that: 'I experienced the intermittently divine for the first time, and more frequently than elsewhere, in love.' If you conjoin these two sentences, it's as if you had said: 'Why not fear every bush in the same way that you fear th..
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Franz Kafka |
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71f0e84
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I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side.
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Franz Kafka |
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4fa4792
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kafkaesque"."
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Franz Kafka |
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ae6ea20
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admh Glb khwd r b azdy fryb mydhnd. hmnTwr khh azdy z wltryn Hsh bh shmr myayd, frybi HSl z an hm jzw wltryn frybhst.
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Franz Kafka |
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9083cfb
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WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.
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Franz Kafka |
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5e65b22
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No one will read what I write here, no one will come to help me... My ship is rudderless, it's driven by the wind blowing into the nethermost regions of death.
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Franz Kafka |
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03ce182
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When one has lived for thirty years in this world and had to fight one's way through it, as I have had to do, one becomes hardened to surprises and doesn't take them too seriously.
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Franz Kafka |
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b70d96b
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It seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless however nice they might be.
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Franz Kafka |
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2bf5685
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It is to us artisans and tradesmen that the salvation of the fatherland is entrusted; but we are not equal to such a task; never, indeed, have we claimed that we were capable of performing it. It is a misunderstanding; and it is proving our ruin.
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Franz Kafka |
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c9140ac
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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.
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Franz Kafka |