Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
FRANZ KAFKAWhat if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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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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