You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKAYouth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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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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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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