Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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