Franz Kafka Quotes, Kissing Quotes, Drunk Quotes

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

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I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant.

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A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.

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The meaning of life is that it stops.

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This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

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I can once more carry on a conversation with myself, and don't stare so into complete emptiness. Only in this way is there any possibility of improvement for me.

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My grandfather used to say: Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that -not to mention accidents- even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey.

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What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

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Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.

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I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

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The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.

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I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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