Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
FRANZ KAFKAMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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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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Books are a narcotic.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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 limited circle is pure.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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