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 KAFKAA First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Paths are made by walking
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Please — consider me a dream.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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