You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAI am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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