I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAHold 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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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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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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 cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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