Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

03-Jul-1883

Germany

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Born July 3, 1883, in Prague, the capital of what is now the Czech Republic, author Franz Kafka grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. After studying law at the University of Prague, he worked for insurance and wrote evenings. In 1923, he moved to Berlin to concentrate on writing, but he died of tuberculosis shortly thereafter. His friend Max Brod published most of his work after his death, such as America and The castle.

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

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

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"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

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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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"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."

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"I am free and that is why I am lost."

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"A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die."

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"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."

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