Quotes from book
Letters to Milena

Letters to Milena
Franz Kafka Original title Briefe an Milena (German, 1952)

Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923.

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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 book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

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“I'm on such a dangerous road, Milena. You're standing firmly near a tree, young, beautiful, your eyes subduing with their radiance the suffering world.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

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“Go on caring for me.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena