Franz Kafka: Frasi in inglese

Franz Kafka era scrittore e aforista boemo di lingua tedesca. Frasi in inglese.
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“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”

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Franz Kafka libro The Trial

First lines, Ch. 1
Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Origine: The Trial (1920)
Contesto: Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.

“Writing is a deeper sleep than death.
Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave,
I can't be dragged from my desk at night.”

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Franz Kafka

“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”

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Franz Kafka

Origine: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.”

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Franz Kafka libro The Trial

Origine: The Trial (1920)

“Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.”

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Franz Kafka libro Letters to Felice

Origine: Letters to Felice‎

“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?”

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Franz Kafka

“What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.”

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Franz Kafka libro The Metamorphosis

Origine: The Metamorphosis

“Writing is prayer.”

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Franz Kafka

“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”

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Franz Kafka

Origine: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“I like to make use of what I know”

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Franz Kafka libro The Trial

Origine: The Trial

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!”

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"Investigations of a Dog"
The Complete Stories (1971)
Origine: The Great Wall of China and Other Stories

“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”

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Franz Kafka

Origine: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.”

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Origine: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".”

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“My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?”

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Origine: Diaries of Franz Kafka

“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence… Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.”

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Franz Kafka libro The Silence of the Sirens

"The Silence of the Sirens" (October 1917)