All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAMay I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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The limited circle is pure.
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