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.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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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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Don’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.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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The limited circle is pure.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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