I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAI have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Hold 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.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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