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 KAFKAYou are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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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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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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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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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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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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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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