The meaning of life is that it stops.
FRANZ KAFKAI’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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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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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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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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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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