You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.
FRANZ KAFKAPlease — consider me a dream.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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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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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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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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Books are a narcotic.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.
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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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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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He was a tool of the boss, without brains or backbone.
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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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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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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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