You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKAShould 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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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 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.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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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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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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