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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? Norman Cousins		Wednesday Feb 04, 2026
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Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world. Franz Kafka

Quote Author: Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (IPA: [ˈfʀanʦ ˈkafka]) (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class Jewish family based in Prague, then part of Austria-Hungary. His unique body of writing — much of which is incomplete and has been published posthumously — is among the most influential in Western literature.

His stories, such as The Metamorphosis (1915), and novels, including The Trial (1925) and The Castle (1926), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world.

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Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise; Because of impatience we cannot return.

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

A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

... The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world.

The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite 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.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.