For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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 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 can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
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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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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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Paths are made by walking
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I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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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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It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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