Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
FRANZ KAFKABeyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
More Franz Kafka Quotes
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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
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Please — consider me a dream.
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They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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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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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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It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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I am free and that is why I am lost.
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I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.
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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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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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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
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You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Paths are made by walking
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
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You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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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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I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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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 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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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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