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I am free and that is why I am lost.

Franz Kafka

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.
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Freedom Myself Philosophy Pieces World
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
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Ability Beautiful Growth Old See
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.
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Breathe Experience Fight Laughter Rise Truth
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
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Darkness Help Myself Talk Thinking
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
Books are a narcotic.
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Book One Liner
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
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End Myself Winter
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
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Doubt Guilty Myself Principle
They say ignorance is bliss, they’re wrong
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Ignorance Wrong
The meaning of life is that it stops.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
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Determination Live Logic Man
I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.
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Deep Myself Yourself
The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.
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Company Different Fear Myself People Person Powerful Writing
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly stepped down a level or two, but If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.
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Possible Quite Yourself

I am free and that is why I am lost.

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