A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
FRANZ KAFKAPeople label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair’.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.
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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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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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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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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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