I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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 meaning of life is that it stops.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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