I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKADon’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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Last 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.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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