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Letters to Milena Quotes

Letters to Milena
by Franz Kafka
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“ I have spent all my life resisting the desire to

end it.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tags: kafka

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“ I am constantly trying to communicate

something incommunicable, to explain
something inexplicable, to tell about
something I only feel in my bones and
which can only be experienced in those
bones. Basically it is nothing other than this
fear we have so often talked about, but fear
spread to everything, fear of the greatest as
of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of
pronouncing a word, although this fear may
not only be fear but also a longing for
something greater than all that is fearful.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tags: communication, fear

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“ I miss you deeply, unfathomably,

senselessly, terribly.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is

love. That, my dear, is love.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tags: kafka, letters, love

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“ I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want

only to lay my face in your lap, feel your
hand on my head and remain like that
through all eternity.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ In a way, you are poetry material; You are

full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to
spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in
your essence and you carry their dust in the
pores of your ethereal individuality.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ Yours

(now I'm even losing my name - it was

getting shorter and shorter all the time and
is now: Yours)
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tags: love, yours

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“ Written kisses don't reach their destination,

rather they are drunk on the way by the
ghosts.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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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.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ Do you know, darling? When you became

involved with others you quite possibly
stepped down a level or two, but If you
become involved with me, you will be
throwing yourself into the abyss.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is

why I make such a fuss about cleanliness.
None sing as purely as those in deepest hell;
it is their singing we take for the singing of
angels.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ Dear Milena,
I wish the world were ending tomorrow.
Then I could take the next train, arrive at
your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come
with me, Milena. We are going to love each
other without scruples or fear or restraint.
Because the world is ending tomorrow.”
Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because
we think we have time, or have to reckon
with time. But what if we don't have time?
Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant?
Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow.
We could help each other very much.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ sleep is the most innocent creature there is

and a sleepless man
the most guilty.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Tags: kafka, man, sleep

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“ When one is alone, imperfection must be

endured every minute of the day; a couple,
however, does not have to put up with it.
Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our
hearts for the same purpose? At the same
time it’s really not that bad; that’s an
exaggeration and a lie, everything is
exaggeration, the only truth is longing. But
even the truth of longing is not so much its
own truth; it’s really an expression for
everything else, which is a lie. This sounds
crazy and distorted, but it’s true. Moreover,
perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what
I love the most - you are the knife I turn
inside myself, this is love. This, my dear, is
love.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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“ I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever

you prefer.
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

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