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.


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‘There are...
FRANZ KAFKA
Isn’t it obvious that a person would leave from where he is hated so much? The heroism of staying ...
FRANZ KAFKA
The meaning of life is that it stops
FRANZ KAFKA
It occurs to me that I really can't remember your face in any precise detail. Only the way you walke...
FRANZ KAFKA
There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the ...
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...
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 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