Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKABooks are a narcotic.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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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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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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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.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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