Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
FRANZ KAFKAYou 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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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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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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