And yes I said yes I will yes

"He put his arms round her and kissed her on the mouth, then all over her face, like thirsty animal greedily lapping the water of a pool it has at last discovered."

Franz Kafka, “The Trial”

"Last night I dreamt about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me."

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Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921

(via tree-stump-palace, viage)

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired."

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Franz Kafka (via subtle-body)

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

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Franz Kafka, Letters (via frenchtwist)

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

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Franz Kafka (via serialstranger)

"Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

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Franz Kafka (via pavorst)

"It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies—not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls."

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Kafka (via kateoplis)