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    Franz Kafka
    “A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness
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    Franz Kafka
    “I am free and that is why I am lost.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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    Franz Kafka
    “I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: absurd
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    Franz Kafka
    “A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

    [Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
    ― franz kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “Books are a narcotic.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Franz Kafka
    “It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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    Franz Kafka
    “Paths are made by walking”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: books
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Franz Kafka
    “You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
    tags: kafka, letters, love
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    Franz Kafka
    “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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    Franz Kafka
    “I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
    ― Franz Kafka
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    Francis Bacon
    “Wonder is the seed of knowledge”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: science
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    Francis Bacon
    “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “It is impossible to love and be wise.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
    ― Francis Bacon
    tags: superstition
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    Francis Bacon
    “Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
    ― Francis Bacon
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    Francis Bacon
    “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”
    ― Francis Bacon, The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon (Unexpurgated Edition)
    tags: history, logic, math, mathematics, moral, philosophy, poetry, rhetoric, science, subtle, wisdom, witty
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