All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
FRANZ KAFKAI am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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