I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKABelieving in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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 for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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