I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKANow I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too 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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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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