Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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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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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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