Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKAKill me, or you are a murderer.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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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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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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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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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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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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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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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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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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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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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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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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It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.
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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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In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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