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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Franz Kafka

In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
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Life Material Poetry Way Willing Yourself
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don’t surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
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Hold Moments Myself Worth Writing
You only need to change your direction, said the cat, and ate it up.
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Change Direction Eat Need Yourself
You can choose to be free , but it’s last decision you’ll ever make
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Choice Decision Freedom Yourself
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
In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.
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Man Struggle World
First impressions are always unreliable.
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Appearance One Liner
Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.
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Animal Himself Light Music
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
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Explanation Expression Myself Try
Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it at every moment.
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Moments Myself Worth
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.
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Empty Forget Philosophy Search Yourself
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Evil One Liner
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.
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Beyond Inspirational Return
The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.
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Right Science Understand

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

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