For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKAFor myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKALove is a drama of contradictions.
FRANZ KAFKAPeople label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
FRANZ KAFKAFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
FRANZ KAFKANothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
FRANZ KAFKAIt 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.
FRANZ KAFKAA non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
FRANZ KAFKAPaths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
FRANZ KAFKAThis 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.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
FRANZ KAFKAAll language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKAIt would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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