TypeIdentity - Franz Kafka Quotes

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Franz Kafka

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Demographics

Gender Male

Birth Name Franz Kafka

Birthplace Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary

Birth Date July 3, 1883

Ethnicity Jewish

Overview Ashkenazi

Nationality Austrain, Czech

Career Novelist, writer, law clerk, lawyer, insurance officer

Color Season Soft Summer

Notes and Motifs

Ji melancholic
Ji perfectionist
Reviser creative
Wrote in German
Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature
His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers
It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity
His best-known works include the novella The Metamorphosis (1915) and the novels The Trial (1924) and The Castle (1926)
The term Kafkaesque has entered the English lexicon to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing
Trained as a lawyer, and after completing his legal education was employed full-time in various legal and insurance jobs
Being employed full-time forced Kafka to relegate writing to his spare time
Few of his works were published during his lifetime
He was a prolific writer, but he burned an estimated 90 percent of his total work due to persistent struggles with self-doubt
Much of the remaining 10 percent is lost or otherwise unpublished
In his will, Kafka instructed his close friend and literary executor, Max Brod, to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika (1927), but Brod ignored these instructions and had much of his work published
His writings became famous in German-speaking countries after World War II, influencing German literature, and its influence spread elsewhere in the world in the 1960s

TiSe I--- Directive

NOTE: This is a historical typing, so quotes are the basis of this typing conclusion.

Kafka: "If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?"

Kafka: "There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie."

Kafka: "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

Kafka: "The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."

Kafka: "I can’t let you understand. I can’t let anyone understand what’s going on inside me. I can’t even explain it to myself."

Kafka: "I write differently than I speak, I speak differently than I think, I think differently than I should think and so it goes on into the deepest darkness."

Kafka: "He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found."

Kafka: "My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well."

Kafka: "Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Kafka: "You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka: "It is often safer to be in chains than to be free."

Kafka: "You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

Kafka: "I was ashamed of myself when I realized that life was a masquerade party, and I attended it with my true face."

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