During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life… Franz Kafka
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More Quotes By Franz Kafka
  1. Love is a drama of contradictions.

  2. May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

  3. Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

  4. The meaning of life is that it stops.

  5. L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.

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