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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FRANZ KAFKA If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?
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FRANZ KAFKA In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
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FRANZ KAFKA May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...
FRANZ KAFKA Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
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FRANZ KAFKA He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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FRANZ KAFKA A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."
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with dim, small lights.
Clouds which mov...
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FRANZ KAFKA I do not read advertisements - I would spend all my time wanting things
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FRANZ KAFKA You are free and that is why you are lost
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FRANZ KAFKA There will be no proof that I ever was a writer
FRANZ KAFKA Where was the judge he'd never seen? Where was the high court he had never reached?
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FRANZ KAFKA Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...
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FRANZ KAFKA sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.
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FRANZ KAFKA I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.
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FRANZ KAFKA 4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that woul...
FRANZ KAFKA I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium...
FRANZ KAFKA One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes whi...
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FRANZ KAFKA Books are a narcotic.
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FRANZ KAFKA Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair
FRANZ KAFKA Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
FRANZ KAFKA I was heading for the city in the south, of which they used to say in our village:
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FRANZ KAFKA The meaning of life is that it stops
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FRANZ KAFKA I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
FRANZ KAFKA Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung....
FRANZ KAFKA If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation ...
FRANZ KAFKA One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.
FRANZ KAFKA Kill me, or you are a murderer.
FRANZ KAFKA Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dr...
FRANZ KAFKA I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something stric...
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...
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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