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 KAFKAAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Paths are made by walking
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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 in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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