I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAI never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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