Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKAWritten kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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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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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Paths are made by walking
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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