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.
FRANZ KAFKAHe is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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