The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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