Kanskje du ser Franz Kafka i et nytt lys etter å ha lest følgende utvalg av uttalelser:
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.
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Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.
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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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The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
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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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One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Ja, humor har han også.
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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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