Letters to Felice
Franz Kafka
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.”
“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
“It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet i have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.”
“Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.”
“One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.”
“Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going, if at all, is by writing, not through rest and sleep. I am far more likely to achieve peace of mind through writing than the capacity to write through peace.”
“The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness.”
“You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know.”
“I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can’t even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.”
“I mustn't look at you too much, or I won't be able to take my eyes off you at all.”
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Book Keywords:
memory, quiet, confusion, love, writing, heart, underworld
