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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · 2d

By the way, I shall be dropping by your place for a moment on Monday at five; if I happen to disturb you in the midst of your work, pretend you're not home.

Franz Kafka, 1909.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Sep 6

Take care of yourself. Let everything be for a while.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 31

But now, no more words, only kisses, and many of them, for a thousand reasons, since it is Sunday.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 30

Doing absolutely nothing for an hour, leaning back in my armchair, in my dressing gown.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm going to sleep, I only want to greet you with a few strokes of the pen, my dearest, incomprehensibly beloved.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today I should not complain at all.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 24

I wish you a beautiful Sunday, friendly parents, fine food, long walks, and a clear head.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yes, that would be lovely, to read this story to you, while I would have to hold your hand, for the story is a little frightening. It is called Metamorphosis.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 19

I got a little lost, but it doesn't matter, because you may have come along, and now we're both lost.

Franz Kafka, 1920.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 14

Until midnight yesterday, I spent the evening with you, first in writing then even more in thought.

Franz Kafka, 1920.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 8

I was holding my head nice and high again and the next day a girl put on a white dress and fell in love with me.

Franz Kafka, 1904.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 7

I think of you with such love and care as if God had entrusted you to me in the clearest words.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 6

The joy of helping you would have exceeded a hundred times any trouble.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dearest, it's still very early, work is waiting, the boss is waiting..
but I'm still sitting here at the typewriter, spending time on you.

Franz Kafka, 1916.

(Kafka's typewriter at work:)

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Aug 3

Why, on these few remaining summer Sundays, don’t you go off into the country first thing in the morning?

Franz Kafka, 1916.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 31

Bring your head to my chest, which needs you so much more than you can imagine.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 29

Stay with me entirely, dearest, stay for me as you are; I would not wish a single hair on your head to turn any way other than it does.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 28

I am sending you a flash photograph of myself. I haven’t in fact got a twisted face; it’s the flash that gives me that visionary look, and I have long ago abandoned high collars.

The tie is a real showpiece; I bought it on a trip to Paris.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 27

And now tonight, as I say goodnight to you, receive the flow of all that I am and have, and all that is deeply happy, to rest in you.

Franz Kafka, 1920.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 26

Oh, darling, it's high time to stop and kiss.

Franz Kafka, 1912

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 25

Had you not been lying on the ground among the animals, you would have been unable to see the sky and the stars and wouldn’t have been set free.

Franz Kafka, 1915.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 24

I noticed her earlier when she and two friends were eating Halberstadt sausages with mustard. She was wearing a white blouse with embroidered flowers that went over her arms and shoulders.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 23

So, my dearest girl, it is evening again after a sleepless afternoon, nothing more is written, only to this girl to whom one always wants to write, from whom one always wants to hear, with whom one always wants to be, in whom one would most like to disappear.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 23

By the way, a terrible temptation to quickly pull you to my chest.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

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The sunny side of Franz Kafka @amschelkavka.bsky.social · Jul 22

I would be quite content, my dearest one, to be allowed to stroke your hand.

Franz Kafka, 1913.

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