Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
FRANZ KAFKAI am a cage, in search of a bird.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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 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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The limited circle is pure.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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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 lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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