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“We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.”

Quote by Franz Kafka

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

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The Blue Octavo Notebooks

This book is a fictional narrative that delves into the life of a 19th-century mathematician, whose notebooks contain cryptic and enigmatic equations. The story intertwines historical events with the mathematician's personal journey, creating a rich tapestry of historical fiction and mathematical intrigue. more

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Franz Kafka (July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924) was an important German-language novelist of the 20th century, known for his unique literary style and profound philosophical thoughts. His works, often themed around loneliness, alienation, and existentialism, have had a profound impact on literature and philosophy. more

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“Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.”

Knows May Matter Facts Might Time Process Term Eternal Aspect Eternity Finals Paradise Nevertheless Repetition Expulsion

Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.”

Doe Evil Left Causes Sin Clear Conscience Paradise Leap Clear Conscience

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.”

Men Mean Evil Women Challenges Struggle Virtue Path Gay Bed Married Understood Seduction Deviation Married Man

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“All science is methodolgy with regard to the Absolute. Therefore, there need be no fear of the unequivocally methodological. It isa husk, but not more than everything except the One.”

Needs Science Absolutes Regard No Fear

Author:Franz Kafka

“In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.”

Humans Different Human Beings Subjects Human Nature Objects Experience Individualism Being There Cognition Different Subjects

Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.”

Men World Love Doe Failing Written Human Nature Mouths Capacity Abandon Intuitive One Love World History Mislead Word Of Mouth

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.”

Joy Work Labor Psychologist Inaccessible

Book:Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

Source: Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod

“The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.”

Mean Heaven Doubt Prove Eternity No Doubt Impossibility Crow

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.”

Time Eternal Concepts Eternity Conclusion Logical Justification Standstill Temporality

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.”

Form Travel Despair Various Stations

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks