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For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

Franz Kafka

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
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Bed Dream Happiness Lie Thinking
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
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Choice Freedom Happiness Leaving Listen Need Quiet Simplicity Wait World Yourself
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
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Book Philosophy Yourself
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.
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Death Desire End Life Myself Resistance
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Kiss Misery Myself Night Paper Yourself
Please — consider me a dream.
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Dream Myself
The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies.
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Art Deep Lying Philosophy Talk Truth Writing
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
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Heart Imagination Quiet Yourself
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
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Explanation Myself Understand

For myself I am too heavy, and for you too light.

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