You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
FRANZ KAFKAWas 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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You misinterpret everything, even the silence.
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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’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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