Kafka Copypastas

when Tumblr makes up things Franz Kafka never really said

One of these quotes was actually written by Franz Kafka in a letter to his long-distance lover, Milena Jesenskà, in 1920 — the other two are from the internet:

1.

You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.

― Franz Kafka

2.

Dear Milena,

I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.

― Franz Kafka

3.

If a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, and if no one loved you then know that I am dead.

― Franz Kafka

The second and third appear nowhere in the text of Kafka’s Letters to Milena…