I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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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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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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