So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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The limited circle is pure.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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