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About Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka was a 19th-century Czech and czech writer. Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. Read more on Wikipedia →

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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.”
— Franz Kafka
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“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
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“L'ternit, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”
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“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasnt yet lived.”
— Franz Kafka
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“All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.”
— Franz Kafka
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“In general I lacked principally the ability to provide even in the slightest detail for the real future. I thought only of things in the present and their present condition, not because of thorough...”
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