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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting

The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.

Franz Kafka
Fighting, Swimming, Order

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

Franz Kafka
Funny, Fighting, Literature

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

Franz Kafka
Fighting, Bottom, Ifs
"The Castle". Book by Franz Kafka, 1926.

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

Franz Kafka
Fighting, Artist, Understanding
Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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