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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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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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.
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Paths are made by walking
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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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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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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