| Franz Kafka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "I have powerfully assumed the negativity of my times." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I represent the negative elements." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Man is trapped in routine." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "I need solitude for my writing; not like a hermit - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1883 - 1924 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." | ![]() |
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| "'Don't you want to join us?' I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. 'No, I don't,' I said." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| POSTSCRIPT "Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little of his despair over his fate...but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins." FRANZ KAFKA |
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