You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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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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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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