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Franz Kafka Quotes: Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
         

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.


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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.



I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.



It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.



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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.



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I am a cage, in search of a bird.



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