I am a cage, in search of a bird.
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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Written kisses don’t reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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The limited circle is pure.
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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 can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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