The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
FRANZ KAFKAEven the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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All language is but a poor translation.
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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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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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