I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
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