“1 July. Too tired.”— Franz Kafka, Diaries (via sheis)
"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
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"I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself."
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (via poeticsofdeath)
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
Display of a page in Franz Kafka’s handwriting, in an exhibition in Berlin, 1966.
"1 July. Too tired."
Franz Kafka, Diaries (via sheis)
"Please β consider me a dream."
Franz Kafka; ‘Once while visiting his friend Max Brod, young Kafka awakened Brod’s father, who was asleep on a couch. Instead of apologizing, Kafka gently montioned him to relax, advanced through the room on tiptoe, and said softly: “Please – consider me a dream.”’ from Franz Kafka (Franz Baumer) (via auroses)
"Donβt you get pleasure out of exaggerating painful things as much as possible?"
Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
"The lucidity of a phantom-thought. Ha-ha."
"β¦knowledge must seep into your blood, into your self, not just into your head, you must live itβ¦"
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Ottille Kafka featured in Letters to Ottla and the Family (1909 - 1924)
"You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love."