# Letters to Milena

- Author: [Franz Kafka](https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka.md)
- Quotes: 1
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/franz-kafka/letters-to-milena

## Quotes

> Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing, which cannot be exaggerated. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression of everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true.
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> Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most — you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love.

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