All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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.
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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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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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The limited circle is pure.
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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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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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Books are a narcotic.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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