- Novelist | July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924
It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.
Franz Kafka
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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.
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The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.
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Writers speak stench.
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The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.
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The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
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One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.
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We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
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