Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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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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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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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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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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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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