All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAJust think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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Should 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.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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