The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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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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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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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 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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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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