They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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The limited circle is pure.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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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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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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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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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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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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You 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.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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