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.
FRANZ KAFKASleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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