You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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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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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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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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