Franz Kafka

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- Author July 03 , 1883 - June 03 , 1924 Amazon Quotes about Franz Kafka Top 10 Quotes by Franz Kafka Read full biography

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

Franz Kafka

Aphorisms - 1918. As quoted in The Unfinished Country: A Book of American Symbols - 1959, by Max Lerner; also in Wait Without Idols - 1964, by Gabriel Vahanian, and in Joyce, Decadence, and Emancipation - 1995, by Vivian Heller,


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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do...

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Aphorisms - 1918. Published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks - 1954; also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".


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All human errors are impatience, the premature breaking off of what is methodical, an apparent fencing in of the apparent thing.

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Aphorisms - 1918. These statements in Kafka's notebooks were later published posthumously in Parables and Paradoxes - 1946, and The Blue Octavo Notebooks - 1954, as translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.


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The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.

Franz Kafka

Aphorisms - 1918. These statements in Kafka's notebooks were later published posthumously in Parables and Paradoxes - 1946, and The Blue Octavo Notebooks - 1954, as translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins.


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There is hope, but not for us.

Franz Kafka

Statement to Max Brod, quoted in Franz Kafka: A Biography - Franz Kafka, eine Biographie - 1937, by Max Brod, as translated by G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston - 1947; 1960


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