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  1. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    Wenn man einmal das Böse bei sich aufgenommen hat, verlangt es nicht mehr, daß man ihm glaube.
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  2. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    Das Negative zu tun, ist uns noch auferlegt, das Positive ist uns schon gegeben.
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  3. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    For Kafka, paradise wasn't a place where people lived in the past and of which a memory has survived, but rather a perennial, hidden presence. In every moment, an immense, encompassing obstacle prevents us from seeing it. That obstacle is nothing other than the expulsion from paradise-a process Kafka called "eternal in its principal aspect.
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  4. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    Alle menschlichen Fehler sind Ungeduld, ein vorzeitiges Abbrechen des Methodischen, ein scheinbares Einpfählen der scheinbaren Sache.
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  5. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.{Im Kampf zwischen Dir und der Welt, sekundiere der Welt}
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  6. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    Es perfectamente imaginable que el esplendor de la vida está dispuesto, siempre en toda plenitud, alrededor de cada uno, pero cubierto de un velo, en las profundidades, invisible muy lejos. Sin embargo está ahí, no hostil, no a disgusto, no sordo, viene si uno lo llama con la palabra correcta, por su nombre correcto, Es la esencia de la magia, que no crea, sino llama."
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  7. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    Why then do you fear love in particular more than earthly existence in general?" Kafka replied as if from an astral distance: "You write: 'Why be more afraid of love than of other things in life?' And just before that: 'I experienced the intermittently divine for the first time, and more frequently than elsewhere, in love.' If you conjoin these two sentences, it's as if you had said: 'Why not fear every bush in the same way that you fear the burning bush?
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  8. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat.
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  9. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    You can withdraw from the sufferings of the world - that possibility is open to you and accords with your nature - but perhaps that withdrawal is the only suffering you might be able to avoid.
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  10. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows.
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  11. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
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  12. Franz Kafka _ The Zürau Aphorisms

    Leop­ards break in­to the tem­ple and drink all the sac­ri­fi­cial ves­sels dry; it keeps hap­pen­ing; in the end, it can be cal­cu­lat­ed in ad­vance and is in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the rit­ual.
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