What am I doing here in this endless winter?
FRANZ KAFKA
FRANZ KAFKA
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I am a cage, in search of a bird.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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 KafkaFranz Kafka I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka 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.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
Franz KafkaFranz Kafka The limited circle is pure.
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Jenny AJenny A Thank you for still being there for yourself. For being strong. For being resilient. Keep going.
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Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You could have shook my whole world luckily I became aware, and I took a turn.
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George HarrisonGeorge Harrison We spent a life time loving, to write an ode to heartbreak in the end.
Ananya BhaskarAnanya Bhaskar I believe we all deserve good endings. We were kind people before this world turned us cruel.
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