Quotes by Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian Jewish novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work, which fuses elements of realism and the fantastic, typically features isolated protagonists faced by bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible social-bureaucratic powers, and has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity.

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Quotes by Franz Kafka

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

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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.

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka, Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Birthday, Age, Leo ♌Franz Kafka
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