You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
FRANZ KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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All language is but a poor translation.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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