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Jun 9, 2024 · And so, for the meantime given dispensation by the illness from the strains of ordinary life, Kafka found the inner freedom to write the 109 Zürau ‘aphorisms’, fragments of thoughts, some like parables, some rather loose abstract images or statements, some pithy narrations, some dialogues - which he meticulously noted down and numbered ...
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Jun 23, 2024 · Franz Kafka — ‘The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because ...
Jun 20, 2024 · Franz Kafka > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “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.”. ― Franz Kafka.
Jun 28, 2024 · Franz Kafka (The the Zürau Aphorisms) "Why did we pursue it? Because it was impossible." Herbert Blau (The Dubious Spectacle) “Human cultures are about place: where to live, and home: how to live and with whom.
Jun 13, 2024 · The Aphorisms were popular well into the 17th century. Here the first aphorism is translated: The life of man is short, the Art of Physicke long, occasion suddaine, experie[n]ce uncertain, judgement difficult.
Jun 25, 2024 · The collection presents a wide range of approaches, discussing subjectivist and objectivist answers, confronting concepts of meaning with notions of happiness and morality, and considering the idea of human life's meaning both sub specie aeternitatis and in view of the world's finitude and contingency.
Jun 27, 2024 · This collection includes a diverse array of Södergran's poetry, including juvenilia along with aphorisms written late in her short life. Charters' translations are sensitive and acutely aware.
