I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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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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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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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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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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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Books are a narcotic.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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