“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“I need the sea because it teaches me”
― On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea
― On the Blue Shore of Silence: Poems of the Sea
“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.”
― Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923
― Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923
“People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”
― Nausea
― Nausea
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