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It is entirely conceivable that life’s splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off.

— Franz Kafka The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)

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I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.

The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948)

If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.

The Complete Stories (1971)

Plenty of hope — for God — no end of hope — only not for us.

In conversation with Max Brod (1920)

What an obstacle had suddenly arisen to block K.'s career!

The Trial (1920)

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

The Trial (1920)

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Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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