It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
FRANZ KAFKAIt certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
FRANZ KAFKAI can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAI miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
FRANZ KAFKALast night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
FRANZ KAFKAThere art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
FRANZ KAFKAA non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
FRANZ KAFKAI do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
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.
FRANZ KAFKALove is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKAThe limited circle is pure.
FRANZ KAFKAThe person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
FRANZ KAFKAMy guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
FRANZ KAFKALogic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
FRANZ KAFKAIt would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKA