Franz Kafka: Citáty v angličtine (page 3)

Franz Kafka bol rakúsko-Uhorsko-československý autor. Citáty v angličtine.
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“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Letters to Felice

Varianta: You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
Zdroj: Letters to Felice‎

“Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Letters to Milena

Zdroj: Letters to Milena

“There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Zürau Aphorisms

3 (20 October 1917); as published in The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954); also in Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings (1954); variant translations use "cardinal sins" instead of "main human sins" and "laziness" instead of "indolence".
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Kontext: There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

“Evil is whatever distracts.”

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Zdroj: book The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Letters to Milena

Zdroj: Letters to Milena

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Letters to Milena

Zdroj: Letters to Milena

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Letters to Milena

Varianta: I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.
Zdroj: Letters to Milena

“So then you’re free?’
‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Amerika

Zdroj: Amerika

“Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Zürau Aphorisms

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“the blend of absurd, surreal and mundane which gave rise to the adjective "kafkaesque”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Metamorphosis

Zdroj: The Metamorphosis

“There is a destination but no way there; what we refer to as way is hesitation.”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Zürau Aphorisms

Zdroj: The Zürau Aphorisms

“The true way is along a rope that is not spanned high in the air, but only just above the ground. It seems intended more to cause stumbling than to be walked upon.”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Zürau Aphorisms

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“I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Trial

Zdroj: The Trial

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”

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Franz Kafka kniha The Metamorphosis

Zdroj: The Metamorphosis

“Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression of everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true.
Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most — you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love.”

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Franz Kafka kniha Letters to Milena

Hat matt nicht die Augen, um sich sie auszureißen und das Herz zum gleichen Zweck? Dabei ist es ja nicht so schlimm, das ist Übertreibung und Lüge, alles ist Übertreibung, nur die Sehnsucht ist wahr, die kann man nicht übertreiben. Aber selbst die Wahrheit der Sehnsucht ist nicht so sehr ihre Wahrheit, als vielmehr der Ausdruck der Lüge alles übrigen sonst. Es klingt verdreht, aber es ist so.
Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist, daß Du mir das Messer bist, mit dem ich in mir wühle.
Letter to Milena Jesenská (14 September 1920) http://www.abyssal.de/zitate/liebe.htm
Variant translations:
In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.
Letters to Milena (1952)

“There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.”

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“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.”

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“Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.”

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