I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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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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Please — consider me a dream.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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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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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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