So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
FRANZ KAFKANothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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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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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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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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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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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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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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