May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAAll I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Please — consider me a dream.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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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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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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