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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.


Franz Kafka

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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 Books are a narcotic.
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FRANZ KAFKA Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.
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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.
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FRANZ KAFKA All language is but a poor translation.
FRANZ KAFKA Yours

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FRANZ KAFKA From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
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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