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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka

“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.”
― Franz Kafka

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
― Franz Kafka

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
― Franz Kafka

“All language is but a poor translation.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
― Franz Kafka

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.”
― franz kafka

“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
― 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

“Love is a drama of contradictions.”
― Franz Kafka

“You are free and that is why you are lost.”
― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

“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.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Please — consider me a dream.”
― Franz Kafka

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no sin except stupidity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

“All art is quite useless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
― Oscar Wilde