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If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka
Age: 41 †
Born: 1883
Born: July 3
Died: 1924
Died: July 3
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My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.
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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing but from their silence, certainly never.
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Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
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First impressions are always unreliable.
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It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.
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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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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.
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German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.
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Evil is whatever distracts.
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There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.
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There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.
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The Fathers of the Church were not afraid to go out into the desert because they had a richness in their hearts. But we, with richness all around us, are afraid, because the desert is in our hearts.
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I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.
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Kill me, or you are a murderer.
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Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.
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