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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3a9e032 | It is necessary to distinguish the chalk circle from the stone wall. | Jeanette Winterson | ||
| 2eac31d | After all, one does not laugh at senator's nephew at the first opportunity that presents itself. | Franz Kafka | ||
| e693ab1 | Iki saatlik yasam iki sayfalik bir yazidan daha iyidir diye emin olmayin. Yazi yoksuldur ama daha temizdir. | hayat kafka kitap letter love mektup milena okumak yazı | Franz Kafka | |
| 16c5111 | The only thing I can do now," he said to himself, and his thought was confirmed by the equal length of his own steps with the steps of the two others, "the only thing I can do now is keep my common sense and do what's needed right till the end. I always wanted to go at the world and try and do too much, and even to do it for something that was not too cheap. That was wrong of me. Should I now show them I learned nothing from facing trial fo.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| e1d25e2 | A man doesn't need to fly to the sun, he need only find a patch of clean earth, and crawl there, and let the sun shine on him. | Franz Kafka | ||
| b418093 | No,' said the priest, 'we must not accept everything is true, we must only accept it is necessary.' 'A dismal thought,' said K., 'it makes untruth into a universal principle. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 9f53f6f | For example, my choice of career. You generously and patiently gave me complete freedom. Though this followed the habits, or at least the values, of the Jewish middle class concerning their sons. And here your misunder-standing of my character worked its effect, which - together with your father's pride - blinded you to my real nature: to my weakness. In your opinion, I was always studying as a child, and later I was always writing. Lo.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 862dd4c | My dear parents," said the sister banging her hand on the table by way of an introduction, "things cannot go on any longer in this way. Maybe if you don't understand that, well, I do. I will not utter my brother's name in front of this monster, and thus I say only that we must try to get rid of it. We have tried what is humanly possible to take care of it and to be patient. I believe that no one can criticize us in the slightest." | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0692a17 | O]ur needs were quite different; what grips me need hardly touch you at all, and vice versa; what is innocence in you may be guilt in me, and vice versa; what has no consequences for you may be the last nail in my coffin. | Franz Kafka | ||
| d46f5bb | I have now, and have had since this afternoon, a great yearning to write all of my anxiety entirely out of me. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 4a89113 | Non spaventarti se senti le mie labbra sul collo, non volevo baciarti, e soltanto amore impacciato. | love | Franz Kafka | |
| f3af98c | The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links. The short short, however, doesn't as a rule have even that much - you don't speak of a chain when there's only one link. ... Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - the.. | short-fiction short-stories short-story | Irving Howe | |
| 5856546 | And it really was kind of the moon to shine on me, too, and out of modesty I was about to place myself under the arch of the tower bridge when it occurred to me that the moon, of course, shone on everything. So I happily spread out my arms in order fully to enjoy the moon. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 32363c6 | It is truly no feat to crack a nut, and therefore no one would think to gather an audience for the purpose of entertaining them with nutcracking. But if he should do so, and if he should succeed in his aim, then it cannot be a matter of mere nutcracking. Or alternatively, it is a matter of nutcracking, but as it turns out we have overlooked the art of nutcracking because we were so proficient at it that it is this new nutcracker who is the .. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 16e0409 | Das Gericht will nichts von Dir. Es nimmt Dich auf wenn Du kommst und es entlasst Dich wenn du gehst. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 64fce7d | For Kafka, paradise wasn't a place where people lived in the past and of which a memory has survived, but rather a perennial, hidden presence. In every moment, an immense, encompassing obstacle prevents us from seeing it. That obstacle is nothing other than the expulsion from paradise--a process Kafka called "eternal in its principal aspect." | Franz Kafka | ||
| 2056cbc | Milena lutfen bana yardim edin! Soyleyebildiklerimden daha da fazlasini anlamaya calisin. | kafka letter love milena | Franz Kafka | |
| 60bc973 | Teoricamente, so ha uma possibilidade perfeita de felicidade: acreditar no indestrutivel em si sem a ele aspirar. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 3347acf | Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben. | good-and-evil philosophy philosophy-of-life | Franz Kafka | |
| 7d8cbf6 | Wenn man einmal das Bose bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, dass man ihm glaube. | good-and-evil philosophy philosophy-of-life | Franz Kafka | |
| 3e82c04 | I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth and the reproductive process in which the genes are transmitted to the next generation. Once past the reproductive stage, the individual has served the purposes of preservation of the species, and then he is on his own. The wrinkled human face is the victim of gravity and of cumulative errors i.. | William S. Wilson | ||
| 85fd40d | Whatever he may seem to us, he is yet a servant of the Law; that is, he belongs to the Law and as such is set beyond human judgment. | Franz Kafka | ||
| ff47345 | Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. ("America: Three Audiences")" | psychology | William S. Wilson | |
| 404848e | Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")" | vulgarity | William S. Wilson | |
| 8f9a944 | Nobody reaches through here, least of all with a message from one who is dead. You, however, sit at your window and dream of the message when evening comes. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 08db3ab | Il sogno e l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te. | Franz Kafka | ||
| c77bf99 | depois, comi o meu jantar de vegetariano, fiquei satisfeito com a minha digestao e tive algumas apreensoes quanto a saber se a minha vida bastaria para toda a duracao da minha vida. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 0131f11 | For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for that duration we three were undivided, I felt the blood of her pulse as we gripped hands, felt her blood beat in the rhythm that reached into the baby as she slipped into the doctor's hands, and for a few days we touched that immensity, we saw through her eyes to an immense intimacy, saw through to where.. | baby birth death | William S. Wilson | |
| b4d0865 | O frio e o calor alternam dentro de mim com as palavras de uma frase, sonho com a expansao e a queda melodiosas. Leio frases de Goethe como se percorresse com todo o meu corpoa gama de entoacoes | Franz Kafka | ||
| b00e080 | each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")" | writing-craft | William S. Wilson | |
| 28c76d4 | Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life." -- | kafka life writers writing | Ernst Pawel | |
| f612e98 | And there shouldn't be anything to stop you carrying on with your usual life. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 6f9f120 | For a man under suspicion movement is better than rest, for the man who is at rest can always, without knowing it, be on the scales being weighed together with his sins. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 6b0bd5f | That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 5d10ed9 | At least descriptive psychology is probably, taken as a whole, a form of anthropomorphism, a nibbling at our own limits. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 4ecc64a | Ocurrio que el cerebro no pudo soportar mas las preocupaciones y dolores que le habian sido impuestos. Y entonces dijo: "Me doy por vencido; pero si alguien sigue interesado en mantener la unidad, que me alivie y recoja parte de mi carga; asi tiraremos un poco mas"." | Franz Kafka | ||
| 5d0857d | Fragen war die Hauptsache | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1923d06 | Toda esta escritura no es otra | Franz Kafka | ||
| 37c4d9e | 48 Belief in progress doesn't mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 042f1e2 | O God," he thought, "what a demanding job I've chosen! Day in, day out on the road. The stresses of trade are much greater than the work going on at head office, and, in addition to that, I have to deal with the problems of traveling, the worries about train connections, irregular bad food, temporary and constantly changing human relationships which never come from the heart. To hell with it all!" | Franz Kafka | ||
| 513ede7 | It's always questionable to intervene decisively in strange circumstances. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 9768f75 | Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position. | Franz Kafka | ||
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Inspiratia de un anume tip, pe care eu, cel mai fericit si mai nefericit, o am acum, la doua noaptea, cand ma duc la culcare (ea va persista, poate, numai sa suport sa ma gandesc la ea, caci este superioara tuturor celor anterioare) este aceea ca pot face de toate, nu numai o anumita munca. Daca astern pe hartie o propozitie la intamplare, de exemplu: < |
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| 640e1e2 | Only those burdened with a common affliction understand each other. Thanks to their affliction they constitute a circle and provide each other mutual support. They glide along the inner borders of their circle, make way for or jostle one another gently in the crowd... There exists not the shadow of a thought to give the comforter an advantage over the comforted. Thus their conversations consist only of a coming-together of their imagination.. | Franz Kafka |