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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka
Wish To Die, Understanding, Literature
Franz Kafka (1994). “The collected aphorisms”

They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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Talking, Stupidity, Understanding
Franz Kafka (2016). “Collected Works (Complete Editions: The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, The Trial, ...)”, p.106, 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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Understanding, Matter, Misunderstanding
"The Trial". Book by Franz Kafka, ch. 7, 1920.

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

Franz Kafka
Suicide, Mean, Understanding
Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.

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Writing, People, Understanding
Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.140, Schocken

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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