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

“Books are a narcotic.”
― Franz Kafka

“Paths are made by walking”
― Franz Kafka

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

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
― Franz Kafka

“How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense",”
― Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis

“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
― Kafka, Franzv

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

“They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong ”
― Franz Kafka

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”
― Franz Kafka

“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

“I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”
― Franz Kafka

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice

“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
― Franz Kafka

“First impressions are always unreliable.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“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.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.”
― Franz Kafka

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

“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena