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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71f0e84 | I have discovered your great wound. You are dying from this flower blooming on your side. | Franz Kafka | ||
| e6c63f9 | If anything in theology can be called Jewish, it is his virtual lack of any concept of 'Nature'. There is in a sense no 'Nature' in Genesis either, since the world is created man. There may, however, be more modern reasons for the absence of this concept in Kafka's case. His position here resembles that of , whose Existential philosophy represents an attack on Naturalism (while adopting its atheistic presuppositions) and therefore find.. | judaism kafka nature | Günther Anders | |
| 4fa4792 | kafkaesque"." | Franz Kafka | ||
| ae6ea20 | 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. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 9083cfb | WHEN Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 5e65b22 | 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. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 03ce182 | 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. | Franz Kafka | ||
| b70d96b | 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. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0081cb4 | dr mqbl dnyy pr z wqHty khh w r drbr mygrft, trz fqT ykh slH dsht w anhm khtbhyy bwd khh z khtbkhnh bh mnt mygrft. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2bf5685 | 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. | Franz Kafka | ||
| c9140ac | 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 | ||
| 1b92ca5 | The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.' It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, 'I love you'; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my 'I love you,' that is all that I have known, nothing .. | Franz Kafka | ||
| ed603a0 | those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible. | ignorance life possibility | Franz Kafka | |
| ea9da95 | Everyone has his cross to bear. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 18986e3 | It is entirely conceivable that life's splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from our view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. This is the essence of magic, which does not create but summons Franz Kafka, 18 October 1921 Es ist sehr gut denkbar, dass die Herrlichkeit des Leb.. | diary hope magic splendour | Franz Kafka | |
| ad93d79 | Evil has ways of surprising one. Suddenly it turns round and says: "You have misunderstood me," and perhaps it really is so. Evil transforms itself into your own lips, lets itself be gnawed at by your teeth, and with these new lips -- no former ones fitted smoothly to your gums -- to your own amazement you utter the words of goodness." | Franz Kafka | ||
| 64521b2 | Peaceful moon. I consist only of bones. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 475a8ac | All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back by the beneficent passage of these days, without my having to help them even in the very least. And, as it will come about quite naturally, I can be weak and quiet and let everything happen to me, and yet everything must turn out well, through the sheer fact of the passing of days. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0ae8d2f | As someone said to me--I can't remember now who it was--it is really remarkable that when you wake up in the morning you nearly always find everything in exactly the same place as the evening before. For when asleep and dreaming you are, apparently at least, in an essentially different state from that of wakefulness; and therefore, as that man truly said, it requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your ey.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| bdd4536 | I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 930be32 | When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had struck such a nerve: "Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written. Every second, without noticing, we pass by thousands of corpses and crimes. That's the routine of our lives." | mystery religion | Stephen Kendrick | |
| 2ebbe84 | It seemed to k. as if all contact with him had been cut and he was more of a free agent than ever. He could wait here, in a place usually forbidden to him, as long as he liked, and he also felt as if he gad won that freedom with more effort than most people could manage to make, and no one could touch him or drive him away, why, they hardly had a right even to adress him. But at the same time - and this feeling was at least as strong - he f.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0106a75 | When the little mouse, which was loved as none other was in the mouse-world, got into a trap one night and with a shrill scream forfeited its life for the sight of the bacon, all the mice in the district, in their holes were overcome by trembling and shaking; with eyes blinking uncontrollably they gazed at each other one by one, while their tails scraped the ground busily and senselessly. Then they came out, hesitantly, pushing one another,.. | dying kafka mice mouse | Franz Kafka | |
| 6bf007a | Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that. | knowledge scientific the-village-schoolmaster | Franz Kafka | |
| 2dfce92 | Gregor, open up, I'm pleading with you.' But Gregor had absolutely no intention of opening the door and complimented himself instead on the precaution he had adopted from his business trips of locking all the doors during the night even at home. | Franz Kafka | ||
| b5c1262 | 'y shkhS hdfh hw "lshy' l'`l~" `lyh 'n ytwq` ywman m lm`n@ mn ldwr. m hw ldwr? lkhwf mn lsqwT? l, ldwr shy' mkhtlf `n lkhwf mn lsqwT. nh Swt lfrG mn tHtn wldhy yjtdhbn wyGryn, nh lrGb@ fy lsqwT, wlty fy mqblh, wbfz`, ndf` `n 'nfsn." -- | Milan Kundera | ||
| 1d824c8 | nhm mst`dwn lldhhb l~ ~ mkn , lf`l ~ shyy' ,fqT lyqtlw lwqt ldh~ l y`rfwn m yf`lwn bh. l y`rfwn shyy', ldhlk ystslmwn llnqydz | Milan Kundera | ||
| 36210bd | And then I realized how powerless I was to revoke my own joke when throughout my life as a whole I was involved in a joke much more vast (all-embracing for me) and utterly irrevocable. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 9f86bf2 | dwst dshtn, chshmpwshy z qdrt st. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2bbc711 | I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2b3eb74 | The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes. | Milan kundera | ||
| 645603a | The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life there are windows now, windows opening to the rear, onto what she has experienced; from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these windows. | Milan Kundera | ||
| ed7e0bc | In Ferdydurke, Gombrowicz got at the fundamental shift that occurred during the twentieth century: until then mankind was divided in two--those who defended the status quo and those who sought to change it. Then the acceleration of History took effect: whereas in the past man had lived continuously in the same setting, in a society that changed only very slowly, now the moment arrived when he suddenly began to feel History moving beneath hi.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| ecffe7e | His connection to his life was that of a sculptor to his statue or a novelist to his novel. It is an inviolable right of a novelist to rework his novel. If the opening does not please him, he can rewrite or delete it. But Zdena's existence denied Mirek that author's prerogative. Zdena insisted on remaining on the opening pages of the novel and did not let herself be crossed out. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5d84f2f | Nunca seremos capaces de establecer con seguridad en que medida nuestras relaciones con los demas son producto de nuestros sentimientos, de nuestro amor, de nuestro desamor, bondad o maldad, y hasta que punto son el resultado de la relacion de fuerzas existente entre ellos y nosotros. La verdadera bondad del hombre solo puede manifestarse con absoluta limpieza y libertad en relacion con quien no representa fuerza alguna. La verdadera prueba.. | animales bondad conveniencia | Milan Kundera | |
| e6f6e4c | mn lS`b l`ysh m` 'shkhS mst`dyn lrslk l~ lmnf~ w lmwt , mn lS`b 'n tSn` mnhm 'Sdq Hmymyn , km mn lS`b 'n tHbhm !. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 132040f | n 'lmn lshkhS~ lys thql mn l'lm ldh~ n`nyh m` lakhr wmn 'jl lakhr wf~ mkn lakhr; 'lm yD`fh lkhyl wtrj`h wy't l'Sd. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 468c91a | L'homme ne peut jamais savoir ce qu'il faut vouloir car il n'a qu'une vie et il ne peut ni la comparer a des vies anterieures ni la rectifier dans des vies ulterieures. (...) Il n'existe aucun moyen de verifier quelle decision est la bonne car il n'existe aucune comparaison. Tout est vecu tout de suite pour la premiere fois et sans preparation. Comme si un acteur entrait en scene sans avoir jamais repete. Mais que peut valoir la vie, si la .. | living | Milan Kundera | |
| caef94e | It was drizzling. As people rushed along, they began opening umbrellas over their heads, and all at once the streets were crowded too. Arched umbrella roofs collided with one another. The men were courteous, and when passing Tereza they held their umbrellas high over their heads and gave her room to go by. But the women would not yield; each looked straight ahead, waiting for the other women to acknowledge her inferiority and step aside. Th.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3928f8b | Missao, Tereza, e uma palavra idiota. Eu nao tenho missao. Ninguem tem missao. E e um alivio enorme perceber que somos livres, que nao temos missao. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 19edbbe | Why is it that a dog's menstruation made her lighthearted and gay, while her own menstruation made her squeamish? The answer seems simple to me: dogs were never expelled from Paradise. Karenin knew nothing about the duality of body and soul and had no concept of disgust. That is why Tereza felt so free and easy with him. (And that is why it is so dangerous to turn an animal into a machina animata, a cow into an automaton for the production .. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c9a110e | he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase | Milan Kundera | ||
| db96472 | our dreams prove that to imagine-to dream about things that have not happened- is among mankind's deepest needs. pg 59 | Kundera Milan | ||
| 4173cc7 | We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. [...] And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, 'sketch' is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing,.. | Milan Kundera |