May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAMost men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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I 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.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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