Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka
Austria
3 Jul 1883 // 3 Jun 1924
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Don't demand any sincerity from me, Milena. No one can demand it from me more than I myself and yet many things elude me, I'm sure, perhaps everything eludes me.

Letters to Milena
It seems to be a fact that man, tortured by his demons, avenges himself blindly on his fellow-man.

Letters to Milena
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Letters to Milena
Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

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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.

Letters to Milena
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.

Letters to Milena
Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

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