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.
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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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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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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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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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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 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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