I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
FRANZ KAFKASlept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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