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  1. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    {O}ur needs were quite different; what grips me need hardly touch you at all, and vice versa; what is innocence in you may be guilt in me, and vice versa; what has no consequences for you may be the last nail in my coffin.
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  2. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    La comparación del pájaro en mano y ciento volando sólo se puede aplicar aquí muy relativamente. En la mano no tengo nada, volando está todo y sin embargo -así lo determinan las condiciones del combate y las necesidades de la vida- tengo que elegir la nada.
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  3. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    Querido padre: Me preguntaste una vez por qué afirmaba yo que te tengo miedo. Como de costumbre, no supe qué contestar, en parte, justamente por el miedo que te tengo, y en parte porque en los fundamentos de ese miedo entran demasiados detalles como para que pueda mantenerlos reunidos en el curso de una conversación. Y, aunque intente ahora contestarte por escrito, mi respuesta será, no obstante, muy incomprensible, porque también al escribir el miedo y sus consecuencias me inhiben ante ti, y porque la magnitud del tema excede mi memoria y mi entendimiento."
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  4. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
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  5. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    He is afraid the shame will outlive him.
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  6. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me - in sober truth a disinherited son - naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body."
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  7. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
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  8. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    It is as if a person were a prisoner, and he had not only the intention to escape, which would perhaps be attainable, but also, and indeed simultaneously, the intention to rebuild the prison as a pleasure dome for himself. But if he escapes, he cannot rebuild, and if he rebuilds, he cannot escape.
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  9. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    In a way, I was safe writing
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  10. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    ... it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.
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  11. Franz Kafka _ Letter to His Father

    there is nothing bad to fear; once you have crossed that threshold, all is well. Another world, and you do not have to speak
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