Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAIn 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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I 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.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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Books are a narcotic.
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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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