Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
FRANZ KAFKAAs Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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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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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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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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