You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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