May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
FRANZ KAFKAI write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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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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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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’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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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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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 am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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