Franz Kafka Archive

Franz Kafka's words, letters & unfinished worlds.

Exploring the Kafkaesque.

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"Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have."

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"The meaning of life is that it stops."

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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

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August 3, 1917.

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"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

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"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect." — The Metamorphosis

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

― Franz Kafka

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"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable." — The Trial

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Before you become Kafka, life makes you live through Dostoevsky first.

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how did you first get introduced to Voltaire?

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When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

― Franz Kafka

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"Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."