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Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic).
* He was a German-speaking Jewish writer.
* He studied law at Charles University in Prague, but never practiced law.
* He worked as an insurance clerk for most of his life.
* He is best known for his short stories and novels, which explore themes of alienation, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of the human condition.
* His works were not published during his lifetime, but they have since become classics of modern literature.
* He died of tuberculosis on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40.

Here are some additional details about Kafka's life and work:

* He was born into a middle-class Jewish family.
* He was a shy and introverted child, and he often felt like an outsider.
* He was deeply interested in philosophy and religion, and he was particularly drawn to the works of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky.
* His work is often characterized by its dark and surreal imagery, and its exploration of the themes of alienation, bureaucracy, and the absurdity of the human condition.
* His works have had a major influence on modern literature, and he is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.

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Paths are made by walking.

Franz Kafka

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Franz Kafka

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Franz Kafka

Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.

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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.

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Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

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

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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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

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L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

Franz Kafka

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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