- Novelist | July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
WisdomStartRightRatherThan
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
GodBrainyNutsCrackHeThem
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
BeautyNeverOldAbilitySeeWho
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
RevolutionNewBureaucracySlime
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
SeaBookFrozenWithinServeUs
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
TruthLieTruth IsTwoThingsLies
Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
YouNeverThingsProductivityBeing
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
WaitWorldFeetYouTableChoice
He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.
FindWillSeekFoundWhoHe
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
CreateBelievingWhateverSomething
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
BeginningCrownViceVirtues
A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
BeginningUnderstandingDieWish
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