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Being alone has a power over me that never fails. My interior dissolves (for the time being only superficially) and is ready to release what lies deeper. When I am willfully alone, a slight ordering of my interior begins to take place and I need nothing more.


Franz Kafka

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FRANZ KAFKA The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell t...
FRANZ KAFKA Al in de vroege ochtend, het was bijna nog nacht, had Gregor de gelegenheid de kracht van zijn zojui...
FRANZ KAFKA It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they h...
FRANZ KAFKA He thought back on his family with deep emotion and love. His conviction that he would have to disap...
FRANZ KAFKA I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot ...
FRANZ KAFKA All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKA Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and ...
FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
FRANZ KAFKA I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, end...
FRANZ KAFKA I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not s...
FRANZ KAFKA They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possib...
FRANZ KAFKA Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
FRANZ KAFKA Please — consider me a dream.
FRANZ KAFKA Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might...
FRANZ KAFKA Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr i...
FRANZ KAFKA For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.
FRANZ KAFKA Paths are made by walking
FRANZ KAFKA In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
FRANZ KAFKA Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are me...
FRANZ KAFKA I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as ...
FRANZ KAFKA I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my h...
FRANZ KAFKA Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist...
FRANZ KAFKA We're not used to thinking of vegetables in creative ways, and consequently the flavors are boring.
BARBARA KAFKA This was one time I didn't have to fight to keep my book healthy. It came easily. All those vegetabl...
BARBARA KAFKA And the lime juice is very important, too – it brings the taste forward in the mouth.
BARBARA KAFKA It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness...
GUSTAV KAFKA The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character wi...
FRANZ LISZT You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involve...
FRANZ GRILLPARZER Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT