Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
FRANZ KAFKAI have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
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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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Paths are made by walking
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Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must 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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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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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I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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