I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
FRANZ KAFKAThe right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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This 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.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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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.
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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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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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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