For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I 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.
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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