Love is a drama of contradictions.
FRANZ KAFKADo 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.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
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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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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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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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So eager are our people to obliterate the present.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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They’re talking about things of which they don’t have the slightest understanding, anyway. It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.
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Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.
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Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.
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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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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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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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