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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Franz Kafka

The limited circle is pure.
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Limitation Pure
I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.
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Health Myself Thinking Yourself
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
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Art Patience Sin
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
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Eat Myself Peace Yourself
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
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Deep Love Myself
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Bed Dream Easy Himself Morning Transformation Wake Up
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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Believe Creation Desire Existence Passion
It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so; obviously it never will be my intention to make you suffer, yet I shall always do so.
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Myself Suffering Yourself
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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Afraid Death Deep Himself Live
There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe, but not for us.
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Break Up Hope Sadness World
I am in chains. Don’t touch my chains.
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Myself Touch
Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.
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Faith Simplicity
A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.
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Beginning Death Understand
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
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Book Kind Myself Thinking Wound
Most men are not wicked, They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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Deep Evil Man Walk
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
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Dead Enough Man Myself Need Pain Solitude Writing

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