By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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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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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Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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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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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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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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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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A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
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Books are a narcotic.
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Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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Love is a drama of contradictions.
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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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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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