Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKA
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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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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Books are a narcotic.
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Paths are made by walking
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
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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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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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The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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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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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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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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No, said the priest, you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary. Depressing view, said K. The lie made into the rule of the world.
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