May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAI’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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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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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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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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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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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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.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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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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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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