A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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 am free and that is why I am lost.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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